The United States is packed with spectacular national forests, and these special spots contain some of the most unique trees found anywhere on the planet.

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 ...

Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. A new study from Aarhus University shows that most native forest plants are ...

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.

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by ...

Did you know that forests cover almost one-third of all land on Earth? These large green areas are the lungs of our planet, but they aren't identical. From the chilly, needle-leaf Boreal forests in ...