Researchers studying Northern California’s wildfire-prone forests have identified deciduous oaks and accumulations of dry debris as the leading threats to power line integrity, a finding that could ...

In forests in the eastern U.S., it can be easy to miss the fact that things are going awry. Elsewhere, in places like the Rocky Mountains or the Sierra Nevada, the signs may be more obvious: a whole ...

In elementary school, most of us learned the basic differences between deciduous and coniferous trees. Deciduous trees have leaves that change color and drop in the fall, and coniferous trees have ...

The University of Missouri Extension and the Department of Conservation are enlisting landowners to plant and care for white oak seedlings. The tree species is essential for wildlife and industry, but ...

"As deciduous trees become more common after fire, they can fundamentally change how much carbon is lost to the atmosphere during future wildfires." Boreal forests store a large fraction of the ...