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 ...

Meyer Ranch Park in Jefferson County will close this month for a tree-thinning project more than a century in the making, and ...

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 ...

Hundreds of charred trees are coming down in Big Bear as veteran volunteers race to cut wildfire risk before the next blaze.

No one is really certain when the massive tree tucked deep in the Tushar Mountains first took root or who was the first to stumble upon it. It’s also not clear what allowed that specific pine to grow ...

Wildlife across the New Forest will require decades to recover following a severe wildfire that destroyed ancient beech and oak trees that had stood at the site for hundreds of years, Forestry England ...

In 2019 and again in 2021, Penn State researchers in the Department of Geography walked a series of 1,000 square foot plots in California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. The goal was to see how the ...

Prescribed burns are common tools for land managers, but researchers say Indigenous burning went beyond that, using fire as a land stewardship tool to care for the environment. Tree rings are ...