A speck of a species - felling pines across West
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The mountain pine beetle is laying waste to vast swaths of the US's vulnerable lodgepole pine forests.
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By WALTER C. JONES  ATLANTA - An innovative company from the West has chosen the pine forests of Southeast Georgia as the location for the country's first plant to process pine scraps into ethanol, the alternative fuel mostly distilled from Midwestern corn.
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It was around 5 when I came home on snowshoes the other day. As the sunset intensified at the western horizon, a stream of light shot through the pines and, of all objects to illuminate, picked out a male cardinal, its brilliant scarlet shining as if by some inner light -- the only point of color in the otherwise monochrome ...
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By David Usborne in New York  There is something doleful about the whispering of the white- barked aspen trees that carpet the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It is a sound of sickness and death.
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A redwood tree discovered in a remote California forest has turned out to be the world's tallest tree, edging out one nearby that had been the previous titleholder, a botanist said on Friday.
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By Rick Steelhammer, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.  Sep. 24--In a brisk September breeze, fluffy white heads of cotton grass, more often associated with Arctic terrain, sway on long stems atop lumpy tussocks of vegetation rising from the open expanse of tundra-like peat bog.
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An azure lake glimmered while ancient pines loomed nearby. My parents and I admired nature's simple beauty, but does everybody look up from their technological wonders to view the natural ones?  Nature gives us everything from oxygen to the material items we enjoy.
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By Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 17--The price of conservation on the Northwest Side approaches $100,000 an acre.   For some environmentalists, it's a price worth paying to secure a few safe harbors for the threatened pygmy owl.
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By PEGGY ANDERSEN, Associated Press writer  SEATTLE  In the past quarter century, this Emerald City in the Evergreen State has lost nearly 1.7 million trees  roughly half the urban forest that shaded yards, parks and open spaces  to population growth, lax maintenance and view seekers.
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Fish and Wildlife has made a recommendation for a small bird that stirs up big controversy. A battle over the protection of the sage grouse rages on between the nationâs energy industry and conservationists.
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By Crystal Bonvillian, Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.  Feb. 12--MILLBROOK -- Millbrook officials are getting into the green.   The City Council is considering an ordinance that would establish an  urban forestry program to plan, plant and maintain trees throughout Millbrook.
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AURORA, Ore. The National Christmas Tree Association is hoping a push of designer trees will renew consumer demand for live trees.
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By Emma D. Sapong  Some Clarence High School students have proved the reforestation of Western New York is no small undertaking.
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By JEREMY HAINSWORTH  VANCOUVER (CP) - A report from a consortium of B.C. forestry-related organizations says the response to the pine beetle that has ravaged the province's forests has been overkill.
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Birding columnist Mathew Tekulsky considers the joys of sparrows wintering in his California backyard.
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Swaying to and fro in the wind, the tall, wispy brown grass presents a most pleasing sight as you cast your gaze in any of a half-dozen directions and ponder a philosophical question: If you were a tree, what sort of tree would you be?
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Scientists are scratching their heads over strange patterns cropping up on moss-covered logs in parks in the region.