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

A foggy path in Palomar Mountain State Park. (Ernie Cowan / For The San Diego Union-Tribune) It was also a chance to meet up with a man who calls this place both work and home.

A foggy morning at Calispell Meadows on the Colville National Forest in northeast Washington. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Forest Service) More than half a million acres of trees spread across ...