Controlled or prescribed fires have been used on Long Island since the 1995 Sunrise Fire near Westhampton to improve habitats ...

Beneath the deep shade of the boreal conifers, the forest floor is cold ... are the predominant tree species. Yellow birch occurs most frequently at the lower limits of this community. Lesser amounts ...

As pine trees mature, their canopies grow closer together and reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the forest floor. That has caused a near or total reduction in necessary plant growth beneath ...

A single straw harvest removes between five and 60 pounds of nitrogen per acre and between 0.5 and five pounds of phosphorus ...

Alberta’s long-term strategy is to log or burn most patches of forest that are dominated by mature pine trees and thus highly susceptible to the beetles. Its short-term strategy is to fight the ...

Fire is a critical tool in the management of longleaf pine habitat ... With fewer trees per acre, they're open and airy. A healthy, mature longleaf forest will likely have less than 50 trees ...

On the forest floor only a few herbaceous plants can ... Ferne focuses on the adaptations of Scot’s Pine and Spruce trees, and the effect pine needles have had on both plant life and the soil ...