Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes, in an effort to learn more about our forests, overcame her fear and climbed a 200-foot ...

A recently constructed trail through the Hungry Beech Preserve in Roane County will make it easier for people to enjoy the ...

Sequoia National Forest — in the Sierra Nevada northeast of Bakersfield — was once busy with timber production.

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

The Jeffrey pine, one of the iconic trees of the Sierra Nevada, appears to have eclipsed other pines to become the ...