Walk into any woods in New England (or the world) and you are bound to find standing dead trees. Depending upon where you live and how you view natural ecosystems these can be viewed either as ...

Standing dead trees in Yellowstone National Park are wildfires waiting to happen, according to a team of researchers that recently took stock of the park’s forested areas. There are high levels of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Twenty years after the 2002 McNally fire scorched the Sierra, the forest shows dramatic recovery. Dead trees and ...

With this recent warm spell melting the snow and exposing the bare bones of the forest floor, we can suddenly see all the low greenery that manages to persist through winter, often hidden beneath the ...

The state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation will pay $2.2 million to cut trees decimated by the southern pine beetle on Long Island’s South Fork, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday.