The Jeffrey pine, one of the iconic trees of the Sierra Nevada, appears to have eclipsed other pines to become the ...

UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

The Bug That’s Eating the Woods.” “Small Pests, Big Problems: The Global Spread of Bark Beetles.” “Eighty-Nine Million Acres ...

There are many other old-growth forests across the continent. Each of these forests has a unique ecology, but all are under ...

UC Davis professor Hugh Safford found the highest living tree in California on a recent hike through the High Sierra.

The animal kingdom gives us rainbows of color with butterflies and chameleons, and clownfish, but birds give us just as much ...

With around 20% of Indiana being forest land and 83% of that privately owned, it can be challenging for some Hoosiers to ...

Sometimes we get sidetracked with bunnies and baskets at this time of year. But we can get beyond those to see the beauty and ...

It made perfect sense for Douglass Jacobs, Fred M. van Eck Professor of Forest Biology and member of Purdue’s Institute for ...