More than 85% of the world's bird, mammal, and amphibian species live in mountains, particularly in forest habitats, but researchers report in the journal One Earth on March 17 that these forests are ...

For over 50 years each spring, researchers with Connecticut’s Great Mountain Forest, nestled in the Litchfield Hills, have been recording how early three Persian Lilac trees begin to bud and flower.

The Interior Department has authorized the Mountain Valley pipeline’s crossing through a national forest, giving another boost to a project that is being fought by environmentalists even as it is ...

Environmental advocates are pushing back on a plan from officials with the White Mountain National Forest to redevelop an area of land near Gorham, which could include cutting down trees and ...

Opponents of proposed logging in White Mountain National Forest have their last chance to object to a project in the Sandwich area this week. People who have already made public comments on the ...

The Malheur, Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman national forests, collectively known as the Blue Mountains, have been operating under a forest management plan developed over 30 years ago. The most recent ...

A 550-acre purchase made by the Whatcom Land Trust on Nov. 4 is the first step in buying 5,500 acres for the Stewart Mountain Community Forest project. The project is a collaboration between Whatcom ...

MOUNTAIN REST – Just shy of 1,000 acres, the Mill Mountain forest fire has been fully contained, though smoky air could persist in the area as stumps continue to smolder, officials said. Fire crews ...

If Hobbits built a luxury hotel, it would probably look something like the new design concept from Stefano Boeri Architetti’s (SBA) hill-inspired Mountain Forest Hotel, a 250-room vertical forest that ...

It rises 7,000 feet from the rugged foothills north of Ojai, in Ventura County. Known as Pine Mountain, it is home to rare California chaparral, hundreds of species of native plants and wildlife, and ...