If you’ve recreated in the Blue Mountain area in Missoula, you’re sure to have come across some trees with a blue ring ...

Bark beetles have impacted nearly 80% of Colorado’s pine forests, and yet ecologists say the devastation is a sign of climate ...

A new study from Los Alamos National Laboratory shows that New Mexico’s beloved piñon pine trees may be more flexible in how ...

The upgrade is the latest in a series of major renovations at Yosemite in recent years. Last year, the park built a new $12.5 ...

The Grand Canyon’s North Rim has been special to generations of Americans. A frequent visitor reflects on this national park’s less busy side and what wildfire has taken away.

BY MID-JULY 2002, the country was at a Preparedness Level 5, meaning that over 80% of the nation’s fire-fighting resources were committed. This was an extreme year for fires, with Oregon, Colorado and ...

Tracy Ross The Colorado Sun While studying air quality during the ultra-fiery summer of 2020, two Colorado State University ...

A wildfire scorched 36,000 acres in 2018, over two-thirds of which sit on Philmont. Scouts are planting thousands of ...

Forests in the Brazilian Amazon damaged by fire remain about 2.6°C (4.7°F) hotter than neighboring intact or selectively ...

Scientists believe the famed ‘Methuselah tree’ was alive before the foundation of the Roman Empire and the building of the ...

Forest collaboratives formed in the wake of the Pacific Northwest’s ‘Timber Wars’ have become major power players operating largely out of the public eye.

Hidden high in the White Mountains of eastern California, a gnarled, weathered tree quietly holds a staggering secret — it’s nearly 5,000 years old.