Right now, because the trees are all the same age and are in close proximity, it’s sort of a ready-made buffet for the ...

MT. LEMMON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A new report has revealed that a mega drought poses a significant threat to the survival of the Ponderosa Pine Forest, as the absence of monsoon rains intensifies the drying ...

Settlers used the tree with abandon, fashioning everything from barns to saloons, opera houses to hardware stores to livery ...

BISMARCK-It's been more than a decade since fire raged through grass and into the ponderosa pines west of Amidon in 2004, burning a relatively narrow strip some 6 miles long on private and public ...

Questions: Did fire regimes in old-growth Pinus ponderosa forest change with Euro-American settlement compared to the pre-settlement period? Do tree age structures exhibit a pattern of continuous ...

North Dakota's only ponderosa pine forest - which was part of the United States' national forest system for several years in the early 1900s and is the nation's easternmost ponderosa pine forest - was ...

Arizona didn’t always burn this way. In the 1970s, when Wally Covington began studying the world’s largest contiguous ponderosa pine forest outside his Flagstaff window at Northern Arizona University, ...

Birds with both eastern and western distributions occur in the Black Hills of western South Dakota. This forest is mostly ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and is managed for timber. Logging alters ...

A profound unraveling is underway in the American Southwest, happening across a thousand-mile arc from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the central Sierra. In an unprecedented calamity, the most widely ...