dead trees are a harder sell. Yet those decaying trees are vital to the forest’s natural circular economy, in which the dead are recycled into the living.

Possible signs of zombie trees include dying branches, increased woodpecker activity, fungi growing on the trunk, and exposed ...

The Los Padres National Forest and the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District announced a series of planned ...

Walk into the woods and you are bound to find standing dead trees, otherwise known as snags. Here's what you may not know about them.

Climate change poses a particular risk to pine trees growing in dry areas, a new study conducted in an urban recreational forest in Helsinki shows.

Forest managers use tools like prescribed burns, thinning, mastication, and piling and burning to reduce fuel—live and dead trees, needles and leaves, and downed branches—that can feed intense ...

Appreciate these trees. As much as standing dead trees aren’t conventionally ‘beautiful’ they are the hallmark of a healthy forest. Susan Pike, a researcher and an environmental sciences and ...

A century of fire suppression, climate change, and drought has worsened wildfires in the Western U.S. While prescribed burns help reduce fuel, a 'fire deficit' increases wildfire risks, with ...