Each year, more than 10,000 students and families participate in hands-on outdoor science learning at Sierra Nevada Journeys ...

Thinning of forests, generally undertaken to reduce dangers from wildfire and restore the forest to a more natural state, also can create more mountain runoff to mitigate drought effects in the ...

Up until the 1890s, the tribal people residing in Sierra Nevada’s forests manually initiated small-scale brush fires to keep the ecosystem healthy. But then entered into picture human intellect.

The Sierra Nevada is an awe-inspiring mountain range in the western United States, standing proud along the eastern edge of California for more than 250 miles. Its rugged terrain varies from 50 to 80 ...

A new study using the largest network of microphones to track birds in the United States is providing crucial insights for managing and restoring fire-prone forests across California's Sierra Nevada ...

Hugh Safford is calling out into the woods for a tree. That’s normal enough for a forest ecologist, but the tree he’s searching for — the Jeffrey pine — was not, until recently, expected to live ...

Sierra Nevada red fox in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California (Keith Slausen, U.S. Forest Service) (CN) — The Center for Biological Diversity on Monday sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for ...

Michelle Beutler cleared 67 trees off a U.S. Forest Service road in two days. It was the spring of 2023, after a record-breaking winter in the Stanislaus National Forest in California’s Sierra Nevada.