Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The devastating wildfires that are consuming thousands of acres of forest in northern Minnesota have been exacerbated by the ...

“Forests die fast and grow slowly,” says Lee E. Frelich, a forest ecologist with the University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology. As climate change continues, he says, some forests could vanish, ...

Two of Minnesota's state forests are growing a little larger thanks to a land donation of 375 acres from the Trust for Public Land. The Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood State Forest will add a ...

Only a few pilots noticed at first until Google Earth launched in 2001 and a satellite photo of the state-shaped forest went viral. Retired Department of Natural Resources employee Bill Lockner ...

DULUTH — The Nature Conservancy purchased more than 12,000 acres of forest, rivers and wetlands between Two Harbors and Ely in northeast Minnesota that the conservation organization plans to restore ...

Hiking through Minnesota’s majestic forests is a tradition enjoyed by generations. Studies show that time in nature boosts mental health and well-being. As you walk beneath the canopy, you might ...

LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY, Minn. — Just a few years into his career as a Department of Natural Resources forester, Bill Lockner got assigned to map a stretch of northern Minnesota for a timber sale in ...

With wispy tufts that drape trees like haunted-house cobwebs, old man’s beard lichen can be an unexpected sight in northern Minnesota forests. It resembles a petite version of Spanish moss seen on ...

Minnesota Forest Industries executive vice president Rick Horton argues in this second installment of my interview with him that loggers don’t determine the age of aspen that is cut on state lands, ...