A path has been cleared for the U.S. Forest Service to proceed with its Reyes Peak Forest Health Project; conservationists ...

With the latest legal challenge rejected in federal court, the U.S. Forest Service is going ahead with a contentious ...

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s ruling to allow a controversial forest thinning project on ...

Chad Julian, wildfire mitigation program specialist for the Colorado State Forest Service, said tree thinning is a common ... to be doing it in ponderosa pine, Douglas fir and mixed conifer ...

Red pine is a shade intolerant, long-lived species and is one of the most genetically uniform forest trees, reaching heights of 60 to 150 feet ... The red pine naturally prunes itself much more ...