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

With conifers encroaching on aspens and lodgepole pine stands plagued by insects and diseases, the Bridger-Teton National ...

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UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

There are many other old-growth forests across the continent. Each of these forests has a unique ecology, but all are under ...

The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the ...

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“Don’t look any place where a 79- or 80 ... on top of the open chest came from a cottonwood tree, some needles nearby from a lodgepole pine, and a leaf on the ground from an aspen.