The melting of glaciers in the Rocky Mountains led to a remarkable discovery: a 5,900-year-old whitebark pine forest ... is 180 meters above the current tree line. The tree line, also known ...

The grove around the Johnstone Trail is full of dead trees, fallen branches, and dense mounds of dried needles. “Around here, you can walk through a bishop pine forest, and it hasn’t burned ...

The grove around the Johnstone Trail is full of dead trees, fallen branches, and dense mounds of dried needles. “Around here, you can walk through a bishop pine forest, and it hasn’t burned ...

If nothing is done to restore a forest after a wildfire, a vicious cycle begins. Fewer surviving trees means fewer pine cones for humans ... t care about a property line. So if we're able to ...

A whitebark pine subfossil revealed beneath a melting ice patch in the Yellowstone region indicates that a mature forest grew above current tree line about 6,000 years ago, when the temperatures ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest ... pine (Pinus strobus) is identified best by its reddish-brown bark and deep furrows, which it acquires as the tree ...

Seán Duke is the Science and Health Editor for Newsweek, based in Dublin, Ireland. He has 25 years of experience as a science journalist, and editor with The Irish Times, the Irish Independent ...