By Rhett Ayers Butler In most forests, a visitor’s eye is trained on what can be reached. The trunk can be measured. The leaves can be plucked. A specimen can be pressed, labeled, and filed away. Yet ...

The culmination of a two year effort on the part of three Sonoma commissions and the City Council, the final draft of a Tree ...

Extreme events wipe out entire forests, dramatically eliminating complex ecosystems as well as local communities. Researchers have become quite familiar with such attention-grabbing events over the ...

The air moving above the forest carries valuable information about how trees absorb carbon, and what may happen in the future as global temperatures rise Vanessa Crooks The forest breathes! There is a ...

In Myakka River State Park you can climb a wooden tower, cross a narrow skywalk, and look out over the tree canopy for a ...

The researchers also studied what happens when leaves get darker, as a previous study had found that climate change could ...

Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and ...

By Marlowe Starling The Van Eck Forest in northwestern California is home to iconic coast redwood trees, which store more ...

Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and multispectral photography. While radar and LiDAR penetrate canopies to reveal ...