Owls add to the intrigue of moss- and lichen-covered conifer trees. (Photo: Jan Zoetekouw/Shutterstock) ... The understory of temperate rain forests hold a significant amount of biomass.

The Tongass National Forest covers nearly 17 million acres, making it the largest national forest in the United States. Its sheer size is staggering, stretching over islands, mountains, fjords ...

Temperate rainforests, like their tropical counterparts, are damp, dense forests that teem with life. These forests are found in isolated pockets around the world, on every continent except for ...

We get between 120 and 280 inches of rain a year, depending on the elevation you're at, and it is one of the five temperate, ... When I walk into the forest and everything is draped in moss, ...

Wistman's Wood is one of the last remaining parts of Dartmoor Forest, which spread across the entire area over 9,000 years ago. This forest began to be cleared when Mesolithic hunters and settlers ...

Moss-speckled stones carpet the forest floor, while ferns festoon the whole scene. Flora like this, in such abundance, is a telltale sign that this is no ordinary woodland — it’s a temperate ...