For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the ...

Savage Gulf State Park in Beersheba Springs, Tennessee is that ravine – except instead of tossing your technology, you’ll be ...

Imagine a ribbon of asphalt winding through clouds, dipping and climbing like a theme park ride designed by Mother Nature ...

Nestled on 13,000 acres in Southwest Florida, the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary stands as a world-class wildlife preserve that ...

This is a small, little-known and secretive sector where pickers know each other but have a “large mistrust towards outsiders ...

Decades of human activity have altered freshwater lakes of our American West, diminishing ecological health and scenic quality. The rehabilitation of this ecologically sensitive, forested landscape ...

More than 20 years ago the bluffs were identified by the provincial government as a sensitive herbaceous ecosystem, and are ...

Termites -- infamous for their ability to destroy wood -- are rarely welcomed into rainforests that have been painstakingly replanted. But a new paper suggests that termite transplants may be ...

The recent halting of the Forest Service’s massive deforestation and road-building project bordering Yellowstone National Park benefitted far more than grizzly bears and lynx. In fact, the area’s ...

A stand of trees that survived nearly 400 years has been discovered on a 1,513-acre mountain tract purchased for preservation by the Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina. That means the oldest of ...

Five “pockets” of old growth trees were found on the 1,513 acres purchased by the Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina, some dating back 400 years. Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina photo A ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. PUTNEY — On Sunday, Jan. 11, at 4 p.m. ecologist Liz Thompson will speak on “Old Growth Forests” at the Putney Public Library, as the featured speaker ...