In about 30 acres of dense forest in the Litchfield Hills, a team of foresters and researchers are pioneering new forest management techniques that they say can be replicated throughout New England to ...
On a patch of Livingston campus once covered in asphalt, Rutgers University-New Brunswick students are planting the ...
Restoring dry forests in the Pacific Northwest, shaped by frequent low-intensity fire and widely spaced trees, often means thinning dense stands that accumulated after decades of fire suppression.
Industrial forests, packed with evenly spaced trees, face nearly 50% higher odds of megafires than public lands. A lidar-powered study of California’s Sierra Nevada reveals how dense plantations feed ...
In Western Colorado, we understand how connected everything is: forests to watersheds, snowpack to irrigation, public lands to the economy. And we’ve seen what happens when one part of that system ...
The method not only overcomes limitations of traditional LiDAR scanning but also enables the extraction of other hard-to-measure crown parameters, promising to advance forest management, breeding, and ...
Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. But if the past is prolonged, many of those ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Forests influence climate not only by storing carbon but by cooling the air, moderating extreme temperatures, and regulating water flows in ways ...
A forestry expert is clearing up a misconception about clearcutting large patches of forest. Ross Reid (@nerdyaboutnature) broke down why clear cutting has a negative impact on biodiversity in a ...