Forests provide timber as well as many other ecosystem services. An important question is how measures to conserve biodiversity affect the profitability of forest operations focused on wood production ...

Forestry is the science of managing, using, conserving, and repairing forests and woodlands to benefit humans and the environment. Foresters may work with natural forests, orchards, and urban settings ...

The sound of chainsaws and the smell of fresh cut timber filled the Haywood Community College campus last Saturday as forestry students competed in the action-packed annual John G. Palmer ...

Manage and protect forest ecosystems and their wildlife. Oversee natural resource production, use and conservation. Prevent and suppress forest fires. Enhance wildlife habitats A Bachelor of Science ...

THE nineteenth annual report of the Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford, for 1942–43 is inevitably coloured by war conditions. It proves somewhat difficult for those interested but not connected with ...

A decade ago, 100,000 volunteers from the Senegalese villages of Casamance and Siné Saloum joined together to replant 80 million mangrove trees, the world’s largest mangrove restoration program. Ten ...

A Purdue University digital forestry team has created a computational tool to obtain and analyze urban tree inventories on public and private lands with record-breaking speed at an unprecedented scale ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Adventurous types might regard the slow-growing character of forests as anathema to their investment style. But ...

Called both a science and an art by those in the profession, silviculture is the practice of growing, managing and protecting healthy and sustainable forests. While growing trees may seem ...