Tag: Forest Management
Old forests are critically important for slowing climate change and merit...
Beverly Law, Oregon State University and William Moomaw, Tufts University
Forests are an essential part of Earth’s operating system....
Wildfires reshape forests and change the behavior of animals that live there
Taylor Ganz, University of Washington
In the arid American West, wildfires now define summer. Recent years have seen some...
Mexican communities manage their local forests, generating benefits for humans, trees...
David Bray, Florida International University
The United Nations is preparing to host pivotal conferences in the coming months on...
Climate change and forest management have both fueled today’s epic...
Steven C. Beda, University of Oregon
What is driving the wildfires that are ravaging California, Oregon and Washington? President Trump and state officials have offered...
Video: Slowing deforestation is the key to preventing the next pandemic...
Les Kaufman, Boston University
In a recent journal article, a team of biologists, medical scientists, environmental scientists and conservationists proposed a number of measures to...
California wildfires signal the arrival of a planetary fire age
Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University
Another autumn, more fires, more refugees and incinerated homes. For California, flames have become the colors of fall.
Free-burning fire is...
Planned burns can reduce wildfire risks, but expanding use of...
Courtney Schultz, Colorado State University; Cassandra Moseley, University of Oregon, and Heidi Huber-Stearns, University of Oregon
As spring settles in across the United States, western...