Tall longleaf pines sway in the subtle spring breeze. Wiregrass rustles with birds searching for a bug snack. It’s an oasis ...

Our garden has grown up and is pretty much on its own, except for when we tweak here and there and tidy up its excesses, like a mother after her ...

When you think about it for a moment, it’s not hard to understand how guns came to hold such a preeminent place in American culture. To the Europeans who came ...

We can all agree that the national parks in the United States are breathtakingly beautiful and chock-full of opportunities to ...

Edward Faison, an ecologist, stood quietly in a patch of forest that stretched for miles in all directions. Above him, the ...

Conservation scientists are challenging the old-school mindset of preserving natural areas in a fixed, untouched state.

Trees that have "fast growing" traits turn out to grow more slowly in the wild than their conservative relatives, scientists ...

Harvard University acquired more than 2,000 acres of land in Petersham for its forestry program. They renamed the land the ...

Ironically, the very demonstration of people’s attachment to their local ecology was used by centralised decision-makers to ...