Though the settlers used trees for shelter, barns, fences and heat, they saw trees as one of their greatest enemies when it ...

Throughout Madison County, much of our forest is dominated by a tall, pale-barked tree that grows ramrod straight. Often called “yellow poplar” by loggers and sawmill owners, it’s also known as “tulip ...

Perhaps the most telltale sign of the coming winter is the gilding of Montana’s western larch forests. Pines, firs, hemlocks, ...

Sunlight filtered through the overstory of a thick Pennsylvania forest and a few rays fell upon the long, serrated leaves of the American chestnut trees down below. The higher Mike Manes, 78, hiked, ...

On a brisk September morning, Brian Palik’s footfalls land quietly on a path in flickering light, beneath a red pine canopy in Minnesota’s iconic Northwoods. A mature red pine, also called Norway pine ...

In August of this year, three researchers made a stunning discovery: The world’s largest sugar pine, by volume, was in Yosemite National Park. The discovery marked the end of a four-decade journey, ...

Most important, of course, is to cut the emissions that are heating the planet. But beyond that, there are ways to help forests adapt. Heat lamps glow in an infrared image of a research station near ...