New research on tree reproduction is helping solve a puzzle that has stumped tree scientists for decades. Many tree species exhibit a reproductive phenomenon known as "masting," where individual trees ...

Creeping climate change in the Southwest appears to be having a negative effect on pinyon pine reproduction, a finding with implications for wildlife species sharing the same woodland ecosystems, says ...

An explosion of fresh green growth is filling the blackened ridges where deadly wildfires burned in the Great Smoky Mountains and Sevier County in November 2016. Scars on the land are still visible ...

Gnarled, dead bristlecone pine trees, which can live more than 5,000 years, stand where young limber pine grow around them. Limber pine is beginning to colonize areas of the Great Basin once dominated ...

Study co-author Dale Brockway (left) and Bladen Lakes State Forest supervisor Hans Rohr (right) survey longleaf pine trees in southeastern North Carolina. New research on tree reproduction is helping ...