Though fire is a threat to people, trees and forests themselves thrive with periodic blazes The ground was soft and black, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon in 2021 burned more than 435,000 acres, including a quarter of the Klamath East forest carbon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FLAGSTAFF — As the morning light spread across the San Francisco Peaks, a group of about 50 volunteers from across Arizona ...

I attended the University of Montana as an undergraduate back in the 1970s. I had many professors who I felt were exceptional. The common denominator in the teachings of all my professors was to look ...

Sometimes, to understand what’s happening in a stream, scientists have to go fishing. “I’m ready whenever,” says David Leer of CreekWalker Aquatics, who’s leading a field crew of scientists and ...

Wildfires burned across an area in the Coconino National Forest, leaving the land without an important part of the ecosystem. Volunteers gathered recently to plant about 1,800 pine seedlings, grown ...

A large Oregon forest meant to offset planet warming emissions was burned three years ago in a wildfire, and the project had to be pulled from a carbon credit market that aims to fight against climate ...