The “21-inch rule” protects trees that are 21 inches in diameter or larger at breast height on six national forests east of the Cascade Mountains crest in Oregon and Washington. It was implemented in ...

Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates a dichotomy where forests are treated either as plantations or reserves.

Volunteers work with forest guards to patrol for loggers Revived forests boost biodiversity, soil and local incomes Jharkhand state has gained 85,000 hectares of forest since 2005 LUKAIYA, India, Oct ...

After more than a century of fire suppression in California’s forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire — through practices like prescribed fire or Indigenous cultural burning — can improve ...

Roughly 500 years ago in California's High Sierra, pine cones dropped to the ground and a cycle began. The Aztec Empire was falling. The printing press was new. The seedlings grew. Half a millennia ...

Average tree size across the Amazon has increased by 3.2% every decade consistent with a response to rising carbon dioxide levels, a new study suggests. The new research published today (25 Sep) in ...

Botanists surveying a remote forest reserve on Pemba Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago have discovered a forest of rare trees — the only place in Africa where they’re known to occur in the ...

NPCA supports the U.S. Forest Service’s plan to protect rare, old-growth forests and leave our largest trees standing for future generations. Here’s why and where to find these majestic trees. Few ...