This forest is found at elevations above 2800-3000 feet on steep mountain slopes,growing on a fragile layer of often saturated soil comprised of organic duff over an acidic, nutrient-poor humus and a ...

Al Stangenberger, a retired UC lecturer on forest soils, said Dr. Zinke's findings ... served in World War II with the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division in Italy. As part of a reconnaissance ...

Australian National University’s Elle Bowd led a research team that collected 729 soil cores from 81 sites in the mountain ash forests of southeast Australia. The sampling sites had been ...

Scientists from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an automated monitoring ...

The U.S. Forest Service has issued a warning to central Montana recreationalists that the soils and water in the area surrounding the Dry Fork of Belt Creek are contaminated with heavy metals.

However, a unique experiment led by Peter Reich, University of Michigan professor in the School for Environmental and Sustainability, suggests carbon emissions from forest soil will likely increase as ...

“White Mountain National Forest is really a bulwark,” said Standing ... Forests store carbon in their soils, trees and plants, helping keep it out of the atmosphere, where it would contribute ...

There’s a tranquility to western North Carolina’s forests. The quiet here is part ... Days of rain had soaked the soils, which made trees on steep slopes more vulnerable when Helene arrived.