Ponderosa pine regeneration in the Southern Rocky Mountains has become a concern for forest management as fires increase in their intensity and duration, leaving behind homogeneous landscapes that ...

“Our road has been nearly the whole day through the woods, that is, if beautiful groves of (ponderosa) pine trees can be called woods. … The country all through is burnt over, so often there is not ...

Slow-growing ponderosa pines may have a better chance of surviving longer than fast-growing ones, especially as climate change increases the frequency and intensity of drought, according to new ...

High on Flagstaff Mountain, a ponderosa pine had quietly succumbed during the summer of 2020, but its green needles lingered another year to blanch in the fall of 2021. The tree was now conspicuous, ...

Allen Zimmerman stands near a large ponderosa pine that was recently struck by lightning on his family’s property in Creston on Wednesday. (Casey Kreider photos/Daily Inter Lake) Fallen limbs are ...

BISMARCK-It's been more than a decade since fire raged through grass and into the ponderosa pines west of Amidon in 2004, burning a relatively narrow strip some 6 miles long on private and public ...

Sometimes, winter in the forest can seem like there isn’t much going on – especially if, like me, you might be out there with a group of 60 excited schoolchildren. Wildlife often make themselves ...

Note: All visuals by Paul Robert Wolf Wilson. Story and interviews by Erin X. Wong. On April 1, activists from the group Pacific Northwest Forest Defense ascended into the uppermost branches of an ...