Across western North America, in millions of acres of pine forest ... of mountain rivers that feed the prairies and cities below. If those forests are devastated, the unshaded snow will melt ...

Gisselle Hernandez Deep within the jungles of Western Belize lies the vast Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve, a region spanning about 300,000 acres. Rife with wildlife, travelers hiking – or ...

The mountain pine beetle is recognized as the most destructive of western forest insects, but the magnitude of this epidemic is already ten times larger than the greatest epidemic previously recorded.