Shelby Perry, a wildlands ecologist with the Northeast Wilderness Trust, cores a red spruce tree and counts its rings. She estimated that the tree was around 100 years old. Photo by Emma ...

Forests have different zones or layers: the forest floor, the understory, the canopy, and the emerging layer. Each layer can have a different climate and is home to a different set of animal and plant ...

The Smithsonian Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) is a global network of scientists and forest research sites dedicated to advancing long-term study of the world's forests. Image credit: ...

Connecticut is a state with so much to be proud of when it comes to the stewardship of our forests. The climate friendly, and socially just, conversations about forests in Connecticut must be centered ...

University of California Cooperative Extension's statewide forestry network provides research-based solutions to natural ...

Famed American biologist Patricia Wright explores an astonishing breadth of biodiversity in the wilderness of Madagascar By Dyan Machan Photographs by Noel Rowe By the time Patricia Wright and her ...