Though no one may be around to hear when a tree falls in the forest, countless critters take note. Dormant fungi within the tree awaken to feast on it, joined by others that creep up from the soil.

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

Someone might have come in and cut firewood at some point ... Old-growth forests tend to have large trees and standing dead trees, including canopies with gaps that result from the deaths of ...

The Los Padres National Forest and the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District announced a series of planned burns of felled dead trees and ... but some may continue into the night ...

some 60 percent of the mature pines in the province may be dead. That’s a billion cubic meters of wood. The trees aren’t the only casualties. A forest die-off disrupts everything, from food ...

U.S. Forest Service policy is to ... to one side or eroded away altogether. Some trees show fire scars from lightning strikes, and there are many dead trees. But this grove of ancient trees ...

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 ...

Authors of a fire modeling study focused on one of the few remaining old-growth forests in the Lake Tahoe Basin are pointing ...