How fire, people and history shaped the South's iconic longleaf pine forests

For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the ...
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Decades after wildfire, a Mongolian pine forest springs back to life

SUKHBAATAR, Mongolia — In the midst of barren sandy land scattered with dry shortgrass, a vast Scotch pine tree forest swallows the viewer into greenery. A total of 11 million trees span 3,250 ...
ucdavis.edu

The Survivors: Sugar Pine Trees and the Future Forest

California’s drought and bark-beetle infestation killed more than 129 million trees between 2012 and 2016 in the Sierra Nevada. But amid the devastation stood some survivors. At the time, UC Davis ...
Reuters

Lebanon's historic pines are dying, one cone at a time

Insects threaten Lebanon's prized pine nuts Forest and livelihoods at risk, prices rising Trees left vulnerable by ravages of climate change BKASSINE FOREST, Lebanon, Nov 11 (Reuters) - In the heart ...
The New Yorker

The Tallest Known Tree in New York Falls in the Forest

In 1675, Mary Walcott, one of the accusers at the Salem witch trials, was born; Domenico II Contarini, the Doge of Venice, died; and, as best as forestry experts can determine, a bunch of ...