A new study reveals how forest management informed by Indigenous practices creates unexpected benefits for drought-prone ...

Scientists have shown how actively managing forests to prevent wildfires can also boost the snowpack, a critical source of ...

There is a long history of the mechanical thinning of forests in standard forestry operations. Thinning typically involves ...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted May 20 to ease bureaucratic obstacles to forest-thinning activities on 20 million acres of the nation’s most fire-prone federal lands. The bill has the backing ...

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team forest thinning projects are underway in the Lake Tahoe Basin. These projects are expected to continue for the next several weeks with some projects ...

In the aftermath of Australia’s “Black Summer” bushfires of 2019–20, few policy questions have proved as persistent as how, exactly, to live with fire on a warming continent. Governments promise ...

COLVILLE, Wash. — Deep in the Colville National Forest in Eastern Washington state, Russ Vaagen is pointing to a delineation between woods that have been selectively thinned and those that haven’t.

WINDHAM — The last time Windham’s town forest was significantly altered, it was the 1800s and the roughly 200 acres weren’t called a town forest. But in the intervening centuries since the land ...

(CN) — A Montana timber thinning project got the green light to proceed on Tuesday as a federal judge shut down environmentalists’ efforts to block it. “Because plaintiffs have failed to show that the ...

Timber Thinning Closes Tinkham Road to Public Feb. 17, 2010 The Forest Service has closed Tinkham Road (Forest Service Road 5500) at milepost .5 for logging 8 a.m. Monday through noon Friday until mid ...

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team forest thinning projects are scheduled to continue for the next several weeks, conditions and weather permitting. Some projects are expected to ...

This sections of forest near Colville, Washington, seen in June, has been thinned, allowing trees to grow less densely and reducing the risk for wildfire. COLVILLE, Wash. — Deep in the Colville ...