Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Teakettle Experimental Forest within the Sierra National Forest is 80 miles east of Fresno, pictured in 2017. (U.S. Forest ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

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 ...