Soil microbes work in communities in order to preform necessary functions for soil health. Essentially, the microbes in the soil can be killed off by heat of fires and after a fire the structure of ...

Giant ponderosa pines—some of the last remaining in the area—share space with at least 13 other tree species. Yet despite its high conservation value and proximity to severely burned forests ...

The region’s forests are adapted to fire. It’s a natural and necessary part of the ecosystem. Today’s megafires, though, burn longer and hotter than blazes in the past due to decades of ill-considered ...

Giant ponderosa pines — some of the last remaining in the area — share space with at least 13 other tree species. Yet despite its high conservation value and proximity to severely burned forests, the ...

Ancient ponderosa pines that once grew in a open ... Yet despite its high conservation value and proximity to severely burned forests, the Emerald Point stand has not been managed to reduce ...

Authors of a fire modeling study focused on one of the few remaining old-growth forests in the Lake Tahoe Basin are pointing ...

Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir forest burned in the 1994 Idaho City Complex Fire on the Boise National Forest in Idaho, and little regeneration has occurred since. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

On the shores of Lake Tahoe at Emerald Bay State Park grows what some consider to be the most iconic old-growth forest in the ...