Credit: NPS Photo/Tim Rains Boreal forests comprise the world’s largest terrestrial biome—a vast landscape ringing the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. The expanse of trees in this ...

We pull weeds in fenced reference areas year after year to shift the balance of understories toward native plants, which support an incredible diversity of native bees, birds, and other wildlife. Fire ...

temperate and boreal forest. It includes the community ecology of the trees and other plant and non-plant species, as well as ecosystem processes and conservation. Across many North American ...

Over the summers of 2023 and 2024, technicians with the U.S. Forest Service covered roughly 353,000 ... with lots of willow, aspen, alder, and other riparian vegetation they can use for food and to ...

That’s why the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California is working to reintroduce intentional, cultural fire. These are once-banned burning practices they use to restore the health of their forests and ...

Ski season is here, and if you’ve scrolled through social media lately, you’ve probably seen an avalanche of photos and videos of celebrities living it up in one iconic ski town: Aspen, Colorado.

Feb. 11, 2025 — Colorado's forests store a massive amount of carbon, but dying trees -- mostly due to insects and disease -- have caused the state's forests to emit more carbon than they ...

Pruning can also be considered preventive maintenance for both insect and disease damage. Many problems may be prevented by pruning correctly during the formative years for a tree or shrub. The late ...

Boreal ecology is the study of ecosystems in the subarctic (boreal) zone of the Northern hemisphere. These areas are dominated by coniferous forest, generally have permafrost soils, and occur ...

When I was a kid, my dad and grandpa placated some hard-ass county inspector by piling massive dirt berms along our place in the Sax-Zim Bog. They sought to block the view of our family junkyard from ...

Editor’s note: This story is the third installment of a four-part Aspen Journalism series on Albert Schweitzer and his impact on Aspen and the world. Albert Schweitzer’s visit to the United ...