Annual cold snaps have kept some invasive tree pests in check, but outbreaks could become more common with warming ...

The amount of forest with problems is only a small fraction of the overall 22 million acres state officials looked at, but it is slightly above the 10-year average ...

Parts of the North Cascades and Mount Baker are facing an outbreak of the western spruce budworm, aerial surveys reveal. The ...

The fate of this natural wonder rests on sustainable choices, mindful tourism, and a collective vow to protect paradise ...

Fifty years ago, 73,877 acres of the Mission Mountains area were designated as wilderness, defined as, “an area of ...

Just as the 1980s economic crash resulted in major UK timber exports, the current windblow crisis is pushing logs further ...

Dozens of trees on a ridge above I-90 were cut or stripped. King County is now suing a trio of property owners.

Swapping her weekly supermarket shop for a micro adventure in the Austrian Alps, Sarah Holt embraces the challenge of a short ...

The so-called roadless rule covers some 30% of all national forest land across the country, but only 2.2% of national forest ...

I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

From family-run farms to orchards growing the juiciest heirloom apples, these are the best places to go apple picking in ...