Foresters from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources planted pine trees across more than 100 acres in the Nemadji ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a brisk September morning, Brian Palik’s footfalls land quietly on a path in flickering light, beneath a red pine canopy in ...

Minnesota Forest Industries executive vice president Rick Horton argues in this second installment of my interview with him that loggers don’t determine the age of aspen that is cut on state lands, ...

Erin is a co-host of "The 4" on WCCO and a two-time Emmy Award-winning reporter passionate about experiential storytelling and taking viewers on an adventure - be it inside a bear den, at the bottom ...

As a forest and climate ecologist in Minnesota, I am worried that the 2.5 million acres of School Trust land managed by Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources are not prepared for climate change.

A century ago today, Minnesota lawmakers succumbed to common sense and public outrage and established the Minnesota Forest Service -- the first state agency assigned to battle incessant wildfires and ...

Two of Minnesota's state forests are growing a little larger thanks to a land donation of 375 acres from the Trust for Public Land. The Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood State Forest will add a ...

DULUTH — Greg Beck manages 35,000 acres of forest in east-central Minnesota as land commissioner and county forester in Pine County. He’s worked there for more than three decades. And neither he nor ...

Minnesota’s northern forests are expected to look vastly different a century from now - with fewer spruce, tamarack and fir trees and more maple, oak and basswood - due to a warming climate. That’s ...

Under a canopy of trees, they met on the park trail and waited for instructions from their guide. In a gentle voice, Chris Brandt spoke to the eight adults assembled on a recent Sunday at William ...

As the world warms, trees in such forests will no longer be adapted to their local climates. That’s where assisted migration comes in John H. Tibbetts, Knowable Magazine On a brisk September morning, ...