The regeneration of forest saplings is pivotal for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem productivity, necessitating innovative management techniques for continuous forest coverage. Traditional ...

ENTERPRISE, Ore. — Although foresters and farmers often work in harmony, Peter Schreder, an Oregon State University professor and extension agent in Wallowa County, said he sees room for more overlap ...

Conventional land clearing methods often come with drawbacks. Heavy excavation equipment can compact and scar soil, repeated passes may disrupt understory and root networks, controlled burns produce ...

Until reasonably accurate and ecologically appropriate language is used by the Forest Service and their collaborators to describe their forest management strategies and activities, fundamental ...

CLOQUET, MINN. – Driving into the University of Minnesota's Cloquet Forestry Center on the outskirts of this town can seem like entering a summer camp. Unassuming frame and log buildings bear the hues ...

Because forest ecosystems have the capacity to store large quantities of carbon (C), there is interest in managing forests to mitigate elevated CO2 concentrations and associated effects on the global ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – The Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team is scheduled to continue prescribed fire operations this week at Lake Tahoe. Conditions and weather permitting, the USDA Forest Service Lake ...

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation officials announced last week that the DEC Forestry Office in West Almond will have Deer Management Assistance Permits available for use this ...

If people thought of forests as pantries, then the undervalued salal berry might get more love. You've seen the shiny-leafed shrubs before—they're ubiquitous from British Columbia to Southern Oregon.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – If conditions and weather are favorable, Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team member, the USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, is scheduled to conduct understory burning ...