A shrinking timber supply has turned B.C. into a high-cost jurisdiction. There have been more than a dozen sawmill and pulp ...

Yampa Valley Sustainability Council has concluded another year of successfully implementing restoration projects in our ...

University of Alberta research provides new insight into how harmful fungal infections could affect the ability of lodgepole pines to defend themselves from deadly mountain pine beetle attacks. Using ...

If you never thought to visit national parks for the architecture, you will now. Stay in one of these cozy parkitecture-style ...

With the Elk Fire 88% contained and growing cooler, the problems are just beginning for the 98,000 acres of land ravaged by ...

Lodgepole pine is a prolific and reliable seed producer. Henry VIII sought a male descendant and had six wives and a bevy of mistresses during his reign as England’s king from 1509-1547.

Lodgepole pine and jack pine rely on the pulse of flame through their crowns to melt away the waxy bond that holds their cones closed; their seeds then fall to fresh ash below, where they can take ...

The fundamental chemistry of combustion lies at the core of the living world. When it happens within a cell it’s called ...

Instead she beheld a green-and-black quilt, burned forests and living ones mingled across the landscape. A year later, lodgepole pine seedlings carpeted the ground so densely that, she said, “you ...

Nathan Fa'avae and Sophie Hart talk to Susie Ferguson about braving burning forests, wild moose and 'mum guilt' in the ...

Hiking is not a traditional Halloween activity, but it should be. What a time to experience the forest: the way that melting ...

It’s native to western pine forests, especially lodgepole and ponderosa forests, where it normally lives in relatively small numbers, killing a tree or two here and there. It’s been normal too ...