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Wildfire Burns 12,500 Acres of Bone-Dry New Jersey Forest
The fire in the Pine Barrens led to the evacuation of 5,000 residents and temporarily shut down a stretch of the Garden State ...
Scientific American5h
Why New Jersey Is Actually a Place with Major Wildfire Risk
A forest fire that erupted in New Jersey and spread overnight highlights the major wildfire risk faced by the state and other ...
Inside Climate News9h
New Jersey Cut Back on Prescribed Burns in the Pine Barrens—and Just Faced a Wildfire That Charred 8,500 Acres
With near drought conditions, state forest fire officials reduced prescribed burns this spring and worried about “quite a ...
Korea JoongAng Daily on MSN1d
Decades after wildfire, a Mongolian pine forest springs back to life
Mongolia's Tujiin Nars National Park features a vast artificial forest, part of a restoration effort to combat ...
Stuttgart Daily Leader2d
Cooperative Extension Service celebrates Arbor Day, educates communities on trees
In celebration of Arbor Day on April 25, Cooperative Extension Service staff are partnering with their communities to ...
DMNews2d
10 places in the US where $50 K buys enough land for an off‑grid, family‑feeding permaculture farm
The Kiamichi Mountains feel more Appalachian than Midwestern—steep ridges, rushing creeks, and hourly cicada buzz. Five‑acre ...
Monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles to Mexico. An inside look into the mystery migration.
For thousands of years, millions of monarch butterflies have migrated from the northern U.S. and Canada to Mexico for the winter. But exactly how they know where to go is still a mystery.
Rare discovery sets a new record on one of California’s highest peaks
UC Davis professor Hugh Safford found the highest living tree in California on a recent hike through the High Sierra.
I Called in My First Turkey During a Lightning Storm
An Indiana hunter teaches himself to call turkeys, and ends up calling in a nice longbeard that gobbled at thunderclaps.
University of California, Davis6d
A New Record for California’s Highest Tree
A UC Davis professor's pleasure hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the ...
Purdue University College of Agriculture7d
Piecing together a forest puzzle
It made perfect sense for Douglass Jacobs, Fred M. van Eck Professor of Forest Biology and member of Purdue’s Institute for ...
Wide variety of old-growth ecosystems across the US makes their conservation a complex challenge
In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the absurdly long pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these ...