Baughman Rock view at Ohiopyle State Park. Tucked deep in Pennsylvania’s verdant southwest pocket, at the elbow of a river flowing south to north, is one of the commonwealth’s wettest places. Fayette ...

Nearly $500,000 from an initiative of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) will fund the start of a project to accelerate Appalachia’s forest farming industry. Virginia Tech will work with ...

Appalachia is globally recognized as a key supplier of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) with growing demand for its resources. Nearly half of the woodland medicinal species in the global ...

Could the boreal forest be less fragile than we think? Contrary to the predictions of models that forecast its rapid decline in favor of temperate maple forests, the ecological history of the boreal ...

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