These ponderosa pine trees, also Montana’s state tree, ran along an irrigation ditch along the Mcclay flat trail. A frequent ...

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 ...

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

A UC Davis field crew conducts forest inventory in the Emerald Point old-growth stand at Lake Tahoe. Ancient ponderosa pines that once grew in a open-canopied forest now confront waves of ...

A forest die-off disrupts everything ... MontanaOn a ranch near Seeley Lake, a worker sprays a ponderosa pine with insecticide to fend off beetles. But spraying whole forests every year would ...

A UC Davis field crew measures a large ponderosa pine while conducting forest inventory in the Emerald Point old-growth stand at Lake Tahoe. Ancient ponderosa pines that once grew in a open ...

The Emerald Point stand supports the largest remaining ponderosa pines in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Some trees are more than 200 centimeters, or 6.5 feet, in diameter.

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 ...