A wildfire burning across Santa Rosa Island is prompting renewed concern for one of the world’s most limited ecosystems — a ...

Longleaf pine conservation is considered a key part of climate resilience for Florida and the Southeast. But when it comes to climate change, longleaf pines are not out of the woods. Drip torch in ...

Conservation of longleaf pine, endangered woodpeckers and the Commonwealth’s managed forests recently received a boost from the USDA Forest Service’s Forest Legacy Program with the acquisition of more ...

April is World Habitat Awareness Month, so today we look at Torrey pines, the rarest native pine in the U.S.

It starts with the cones. They’re usually gathered in the wild, from whitebark pine trees several thousand feet above sea level somewhere in the West. The cones get shipped to the U.S. Forest ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership with WABE and Grist, a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. One of ...

The park’s Lost Pines forest offers hiking, camping, and scenic drives near Austin.

California’s drought and bark-beetle infestation killed more than 129 million trees between 2012 and 2016 in the Sierra Nevada. But amid the devastation stood some survivors. At the time, UC Davis ...

Talk to anyone who works with longleaf pine trees – which many agree are as iconic to the Southeast as redwoods are to California – and one number is bound to come up: 90 million acres. That’s the ...

Fire policy began to shift by the 1990s, and when the pine beetle started ravaging the area in 2014, state foresters began ...