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

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

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

Hidden high in the White Mountains of eastern California, a gnarled, weathered tree quietly holds a staggering secret — it's ...

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 ...

All forests experience a finite life cycle – a sequence of transitions where species thrive or perish based on sunlight, ...

Vital to the Dolores River Watershed, thousands of mature ponderosa pines have been protected from logging north of Dolores ...

Some effects of Arizona's Dragon Bravo Fire are clear, but what's happened to wildlife may not be known until the flames die ...

Forest health advocates have finalized an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service that will preserve tens of thousands of the largest, oldest ponderosa pine trees in Colorado’s San Juan National Forest ...

Nestled within the world’s largest ponderosa pine forest, some of today’s (and tomorrow’s) most notable artists delivered their inspired sets at 7,000 feet elevation.

It is not often that we get to read about the history and science of forest fires written with beautiful descriptive prose in a regional newspaper. Lynda Mapes is an incredible writer.