As with national parks, U.S. national forests protect a vast array of flora and fauna and preserve some of the most beautiful landscapes in the country-and they're far less crowded. In fact, it will ...

The national forests in the United States span an extraordinary range of landscapes. Desert peaks, swampy coastlines, and even a tropical rainforest all fall under the authority of the U.S. Forest ...

Why it's incredible: The forest preserves some of the oldest trees in the world. The Cairo Fossil Forest is a unique collection of 385 million-year-old trees preserved in an abandoned quarry in ...

The western United States is facing another destructive wildfire season, with more acres burned in Colorado alone in 2025 than in the past four years combined. If global warming continues on its ...

Humans have altered the forests of western North America markedly over the past several centuries. We’ve suppressed fire, harvested much of the old-growth trees, and built homes and communities within ...

The US Forest Service has proposed closing some three-quarters of its research sites in a move that has provoked widespread ...

The fight over the roadless rule has long focused on the West, but its repeal could fragment some of the last pristine forests in the eastern United States. When most people think about national ...