Illinois has some 4.8 million acres of forest land. Just minutes southwest of Peoria, you’ll find Sand Ridge, a sweeping expanse of oak-hickory forest and pines. Out towards Rockford, there’s Lowden ...

Clifftop’s Storment-Hauss Nature Preserve, located at 3326 Reed Road, south of Waterloo and west of Red Bud, is now open to the public. The 84-acre preserve protects 64 acres of mature upland ...

A study from the Missouri Ozarks highlights the importance of spatial aspects of biodiversity for healthy functioning of naturally occurring forests. Biologists from Washington University in St. Louis ...

The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understorey due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of ...

If a tree fell in Penn’s Forrest — would it make a sound? The land that we now consider Pennsylvania was approximately 97% covered in forests, even before European colonization . The area around ...