Fewer wildfires burn in North American forests today than in previous centuries, increasing the risk of more severe wildfires ...

A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic landscapes and climate change.

A 5900-year-old whitebark pine forest has been discovered due to ... t the first such finding researchers have unearthed from Rocky mountain ice patches. Previous work found “fragments of ...

Though climate change has caused ice to melt high in the Rocky Mountains, researchers discovered an ancient forest lingering ... has substantially transformed mountain ecosystems through ...

Unlike many Eastern states, Colorado has a growing moose population. In fact, there are so many moose in the park that ...

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team of scientists from Montana State University, the U.S. Geological ...

Rocky Mountain National Park is offering the community the chance to learn the basics of analyzing and investigating animal ...

“The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests boast the highest carbon sequestration capacity of any national forest in the Rocky Mountain region. Despite this the Forest Service has ...

This ancient forest of whitebark pines thrived for centuries ... The trees revealed by the melting Rocky Mountain ice patch look "like trees that you would see up in a windswept area," McWethy ...