As wildfires like the ones that blanketed the northeastern U.S. in smoke earlier this month become more frequent and more powerful, governments are adopting new approaches to protect forests and the ...

This sections of forest near Colville, Washington, seen in June, has been thinned, allowing trees to grow less densely and reducing the risk for wildfire. COLVILLE, Wash. — Deep in the Colville ...

Arizona got lucky this year. Monsoon rains tamped down what was shaping up to be a catastrophic wildfire season. But our forests remain horrendously overgrown, and efforts to thin them – while ...

The Ninth Circuit held that the Forest Service’s substantial reduction of a forest thinning project between the Draft and Final EAs did not require repeating the public comment process or considering ...

But the park’s forest ecologist saw plenty of good news when he inspected the Washburn Fire early last week: A forest-thinning project that had removed trees and dense undergrowth was helping tame ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The federal government plans to conduct large-scale tree thinning and prescribed burns northwest of Los Alamos ...

In early February, Josh Schlossberg was cross-country skiing in Elk Meadow Park near Evergreen when he came across a pile of trees that had been cut down. He started counting the rings and discovered ...

(CN) — Conservationists filed three lawsuits in federal court Wednesday to stop a proposed logging project on Pine Mountain in Ventura County, roughly 30 miles north of Ojai in Southern California.

Heat-stressed Victorian mountain ash forests are thinning fast, turning from carbon sinks to carbon sources, new research reveals. Published in Nature Communications, the research shows forests will ...

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton lauded the Bush administration's Healthy Forest Initiative on Tuesday in a telephone press conference with reporters around the nation. On the eve of the fire season, ...

Environmentalists fight California forestry work The lawsuit against the National Park Service is the latest in a series of legal attacks launched by Earth Island, the John Muir Project and other ...