An effort to stop the U.S. Forest Service from taking chain saws to a section of Los Padres National Forest that is home to old-growth pines and a multitude of native plants and wildlife has hit a ...

(CN) — Conservationists filed three lawsuits in federal court Wednesday to stop a proposed logging project on Pine Mountain in Ventura County, roughly 30 miles north of Ojai in Southern California.

Pine Mountain, north of Ojai, provides a bird's eye view of the sunrises and sunsets in Los Padres National Forest. (Stuart Leavenworth / Los Angeles Times) It rises 7,000 feet from the rugged ...

Forestland owners can get paid to complete their first tree thinning, said Joe Friend, forester for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. The program is a U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest ...

“What can we do with all our thinned pine? It’s got no value!” I’ve heard this many times over the years from fellow mountain dwellers and land managers in the U.S. West, where we are clearing trees ...

"People often are surprised and in disbelief when I tell them that the yellow, dying needles are a function of the normal shedding that happens every fall," said Ingrid Aguayo, forest entomologist for ...

The benefits of prescribed fire in the Southern “pineywoods” are many and varied—and because of the passion of folks who love and believe in these legal and carefully-planned controlled fires and ...

A new study on intensively managed loblolly pine plantations in the southern United States reveals how trees compete for light and nutrients, and how thinning reshapes that competition. The findings, ...