Standing dead trees in Yellowstone National Park are growing wildfire hazards, especially near park infrastructure. A new study published in Forest Ecosystems explores how these dead trees ...

Researchers discovered more than 30 dead whitebark pine trees that were entombed in ice for millennia, representing a bygone ...

Yellowstone's fifth season wrapped up with a major funeral, which included one attendee whose presence was a subtle John ...

During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevation above 10,000 feet – about 600 feet higher than where the ...

It appeared that the aspen trees had stopped regenerating around the 1930s. One significant change happened in Yellowstone back then. All the park's resident wolves were dead. Between 1883 and ...

Bit by bit, development and sprawl are inexorably gnawing away at private lands crucial to wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Current trends are not encouraging, but nor are they ...

These fat-rich little morsels—they’re called nuts but are really pine seeds—come to ripeness within cones on the trees, which inhabit the Yellowstone ... some bark off a dead tree to show ...

One of Yellowstone Natural Park’s most famous denizens has tragically passed. Wildlife researchers have confirmed that the long-lived wolf 907F—also known as “Queen of the Wolves“—died ...

Then there’s the late 1980s when the historic Yellowstone fires ripped through and burned more than half a million acres of trees, willows and sagebrush steppe. Go 2,000 years back and it’s a ...

George Marler's documentation of hydrothermal activity has provided future generations with invaluable information, writes ...