"Pine trees contain resin, which acts like oil, intensifying fires when ignited. This resin causes wildfires to burn faster, ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Mountain Pine Beetles damaged hundreds of thousands of acres of forest in the Black Hills over a 20-year epidemic stretching from the mid-1990s to the mid-2010s. Experts say ...

The Western Pine may be Idaho’s state tree – but another type of pine tree is notable for its age and resilience in Idaho’s ...

This story appears in the April 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Six zipped her jacket and ambled into the woods with an ax. She stopped at a mixed stand of emerald and burnt-orange ...

Climate change poses a particular risk to pine trees growing in dry areas, a new University of Eastern Finland study conducted in an urban recreational forest in Helsinki shows. Tree mortality has ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the whitebark pine will be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The pine is the most widespread tree to ...