Known as Pine Mountain, it is home to rare California chaparral, hundreds of species of native plants and wildlife, and an old-growth pine forest the U.S. Forest Service wants to thin out with ...

For its current good fortune, the mountain pine beetle can thank us. To start with, we’ve spent the past century eliminating forest fires ... variety to home brew a beer she called Six-Legged ...

Gisselle Hernandez Deep within the jungles of Western Belize lies the vast Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve, a region spanning about 300,000 acres. Rife with wildlife, travelers hiking – or ...

(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.

“We will explore all of our options for protecting Pine Mountain from a misguided and potentially damaging project.” In a statement, the Forest Service said the project would “protect an ...

the mountain pine beetle has played an important role in lodgepole and ponderosa pine forest renewal. It's only when populations reach epidemic levels that we see large-scale mortality of forests ...

How lodgepole pines protect their kind against fire, mountain pine beetles infestation Date: May 31, 2011 Source: American Journal of Botany Summary: Scientists have been investigating the effect ...

Pine beetle on the bark of a ponderosa pine. A tiny beetle that has wiped out tens of millions of acres of forest in the western United States and Canada could be close to invading Minnesota's ...