UC Davis ecologist Patricia Maloney and a team of researchers collected seeds from 100 sugar pine trees that survived the California drought and bark-beetle infestation that killed more 129 million ...

California’s drought and bark-beetle infestation killed more than 129 million trees between 2012 and 2016 in the Sierra Nevada. But amid the devastation stood some survivors. At the time, UC Davis ...

In 1859, a deposit of silver was discovered in a peak of the Virginia Range, the first major silver discovery in the United States, kicking off a silver rush that brought thousands of prospectors to ...

When California’s historic five-year drought finally relented a few years ago, the tally of dead trees in the Sierra Nevada was higher than almost anyone expected: 129 million. Most are still standing ...

A tree is planted near the Black Oak Campground area east of Georgetown in April 2016. In 2014, the King Fire tore through nearly 98,000 acres of El Dorado and Placer counties. As part of a ...

A thick blanket of snow covers the Tahoe Basin, its grasses and trees dormant as they wait for spring. But tucked in an office on the southwest shore of Lake Tahoe, Sugar Pine Foundation Executive ...

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Bass Lake Ranger District is now working to restore the area after the devastating loss of trees during the Creek Fire. The Sierra National Forest is offering a ...

In August of this year, three researchers made a stunning discovery: The world’s largest sugar pine, by volume, was in Yosemite National Park. The discovery marked the end of a four-decade journey, ...

I’m standing in a stretch of woods. The trunks of towering trees are charred black and some of the lowest hanging pine needles are singed a burnt orange. Light streams through an open canopy. A ...