A new first-of-its-kind wildfire insurance policy ties coverage to forest management and risk mitigation efforts. Can it curb ...

VINELAND — A forest fire in the Peaslee Wildlife Management Area is holding steady at 1,300 acres, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said Monday evening. Firefighters had contained 75% of the ...

VINELAND — A forest fire in the Peaslee Wildlife Management Area has grown to 1,300 acres, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said as of Monday morning. Firefighters had contained 75% of the ...

Our native forests are full of food. The understories are packed with blueberries and huckleberries and for thousands of ...

In a significant step towards wildfire prevention and biodiversity conservation, the Dalhousie forest division has launched a ...

Over the past few years, many decisionmakers and forest managers have increasingly called for “active management” of natural forests — human intervention via mechanical thinning and other forms of ...

The fire was initially reported as an acre in size around 3 p.m.The string of fires comes after the N.C. Forest Service announced on Dec. 1. that there is a high risk of wildland fires for the ...

In the Atlantic Forest, fires affect secondary succession by altering floristic composition, decreasing richness, reducing the prevalence of animal-dispersed trees, lowering abundance, and diminishing ...

Primary succession is the process of ecological growth starting from completely barren or newly exposed land, after a volcanic eruption, for instance, when there is rock but no soil for plants to ...

The southwestern U.S. is usually synonymous with drought, but Ohio University Professor of Forest Ecology Brian McCarthy, Ph.D., says wet conditions this spring actually made matters worse.McCarthy ...