Avian research often focuses on forests as breeding habitats, but scientists are now working to understand the vital role that small forest patches play in migration. For the first time, a team of ...

Here are United States Forest Service geographic maps defining the 20 major forest cover types in the United States and where common trees are most often located based on frequency of occurrence.

The map, made by geographer and GIS analyst Robert Szucs, shows the forest cover in 48 contiguous states It reveals how the East and West coasts are dominated by dense forests, while central US ...

Eastern red-backed salamanders are the most common salamanders in the Eastern and Appalachian regions of the United States – and in a healthy forest ecosystem, they’re often more plentiful ...

By working with colleagues at the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey, researchers Josef Kellndorf and Wayne Walker spent six years assembling the national forest map you see up top [hi ...

By 1860, about 153 million acres of forest had been cleared for farming, with an additional 11 million acres lost to industrial activities, particularly in the eastern states. By 1920, U.S. forest ...