Jon Regan stands between two tree that sprung up from stump cut 15 years ago. Regan says his job, like the foresters who harvested timber from the site 15 years ago, is to make sure the process is ...

Mar. 26—Hundreds of harvested lodgepole pine released a clean, sweet smell with a touch of mint, into the air as they lay in piles on the landing floor. Just outside of Coram on the Flathead National ...

As a small crew worked last week cutting down timber in a spruce-fir forest south of Collbran on Grand Mesa, a rain cloud scudded overhead and moistened the scene. It was an isolated shower, though, ...

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Decades worth of work from tree geneticists are now colliding with AI and multiplex CRISPR to overcome a major barrier to the sustainable production of wood fibers while improving wood properties.