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Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Alana Zammit, Rosenwyn Petherick-Davies, Germana Vizzotto Osowski, Márcia I G Zanella, Lais Silva Mariscal Baba, Luana Alves, André Luiz Gama Nogueira, Claudia Almeida Scariot, Adroaldo J. Zanella, Ana Filipa Palmeirim, Harriet Bartlett, Ricardo Rocha

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Atte Komonen, Aapo Jantunen, Kaisu Aapala, Janne S. Kotiaho, Merja Elo

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Judith Sitters, Maaike Weijters, Roland Bobbink, Emiel Brouwer, Daan van Pul, Willem-Jan Emsens, Henk Siepel, Erik Verbruggen, Joost Vogels

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Yiying Wang, Xiangwen Deng, Lijun Chen, Zhihong Huang, Shuai Ouyang, Franco Biondi, Wenhua Xiang

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Meng Chen, Xu Zhang, Ming Li, Yan Zhao, Maurizio Mencuccini, Yang Cao

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Mateusz Muzolf, Sebastian Bury, Markus Engel, Anne Strieder, Oliver Eglin, Andrzej M. Jagodziński, Marcin K. Dyderski

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Otto Liutu, Paavo Ojanen, Topi Tanhuanpää, Kari Minkkinen

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Lin Xu, Lihou Qin, Zhenzhao Xu

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Daesung Lee, Helena Haakana, Olli-Pekka Tikkasalo, Harri Mäkinen

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Xin Zhang, Jizhen Chen, Zihao Fan, Yuxing Ou, Zhilin Huang, Xiangyang Sun, Qiwu Sun

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Hermine Houdas, José M. Olano, Kevin R. Hultine, Jessica S. Guo, Héctor Hernández-Alonso, Susan E. Bush, Miguel García-Hidalgo, María E. Coca-García, Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Kristjan Ait, Floortje Vodde, Heino Õunap, Kristiina Palm-Hellenurm, Argo Orumaa, Tanel Kaart, Marek Metslaid

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Wenhua Zhao, Yujiao Qi, Jie He, Si Zhong

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Hamed Yousefzadeh, Nooshin Mohajeran, Malek Nasiri, Łukasz Walas, Om P. Rajora

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Kate Harrington, Fraser J.G. Mitchell, Jane C. Stout

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Daniel Renison, Juan Manuel Rodriguez, Santiago Costas, Niklas Heinemann, Isabell Hensen

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Barbara Grzesiak, Daniel Janowski, Maria Rudawska, Agnieszka Turowska, Michał Węgrzyn

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Rebecca Aguilar, Anna DeLaFuente, Justin Heslinga, Priscilla A. Nyamai

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Dinuka M. Senevirathne, Sheng-I Yang, Dehai Zhao, Xiao Song, Quang Cao, Bronson P. Bullock, Stephen M. Kinane, Richard Chandler

Publication date: 15 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 618Author(s): Antonina M. Dubińska, Piotr Dąbrowski, Hazem M. Kalaji, Krzysztof Sztabkowski, Marzena Niemczyk

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Vitoria Duarte Derisso, Maria Tereza Grombone-Guaratini, Francis E. Putz, Rodrigo Costa Pinto, Iran Paz Pires, Edson Vidal

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Verónica Loewe-Muñoz, Rodrigo Del Río, Claudia Bonomelli, Claudia Delard, Mónica Balzarini

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Sarah McCarthy-Neumann, Maria I. Schutte, Robert Phillips, J.T. Michel, Jon Evans

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Anna Walkiewicz, Piotr Bulak, Katarzyna Jaromin-Gleń, Jan Walkiewicz, Mohammad I. Khalil, Bruce Osborne

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Christopher E. Looney, W. Keith Moser

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Paul Richter, Christine Moos, Andrea Sgarbossa, Tommaso Baggio, Emanuele Lingua

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Moshe (Vladislav) Dubinin, Tarin Paz-Kagan, Dan Yakir, Yosef Moshe, Yagil Osem

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Shiqi Qing, Haijiao Yang, Zhaoquan Xu, Xinyue Wang, Ran Zhao, Zhong Zhao, Zhibin Wang

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Farhana Adilah Zahari, Sharon Yu Ling Lau, Meldon Fienberg Kelbin, Gaik Ee Lee, Umar Hussaini Tarmizi, Qiqian Wu, Xiangzhen Li, Lars Vesterdal, Jan Frouz, Chengming You, Amirah Alias, Kai Yue, Alexandre Soares Rosado, Marek Seidenglanz, Lulie Melling, Petr Heděnec

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): James Broom, Loïc D’Orangeville, Anthony R. Taylor

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Corey Dawson, Kai Zuo, Ana María González Calderón, Mathieu F. Bilodeau, James Veres, Chris Smith, Brandon Heung

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Brian J. Palik, Douglas N. Kastendick, Linda M. Nagel

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Filippo Fortuna, Cristina Gasperini, Elisa Carrari, Ilaria Santi, Federico Selvi

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Sachin Timilsina, David Bille Byriel, Nathan Le Boursicaud, Davide Barsotti, Yamina Micaela Rosas, Anna Karina Zimmermann, Torben Riis-Nielsen, Inger Kappel Schmidt, Lars Vesterdal, Per Gundersen, Raphaël J. Manlay, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Eliana R. Heiser, Lauren E. Whitenack, Jay D. Carlisle, Robert A. Miller

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Karun Pandit, Daniel J. Johnson, James E. Smith, Grant M. Domke, Jeremy W. Lichstein

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Luca Bigagli, Sebastiano Salvidio, Giacomo Rosa, Elisa Del Bono, Andrea Costa

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Håkan Berglund, Kaisa Junninen

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo, Eva Padrón Cedrés, Andrés Baietto, Cristina Valeriano, Guillermo Palacios Rodríguez, J. Julio Camarero

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Leonardo D. Aguiar, Martín A. Ortiz, Laura C. Pereyra, Diego Nuñez, Alejandro R. Giraudo, Eduardo F. Schaefer

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Grzegorz Mikusiński, Sönke Eggers, Johan Månsson, Zuzanna M. Rosin, Michał Walesiak, Michał Żmihorski

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Aijun Xing, Haihua Shen, Mengying Zhao, Jingyun Fang

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Maxence Martin, Claudio Mura, Kaysandra Waldron, Junior A. Tremblay

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Dehai Zhao, Bronson P. Bullock, Mingliang Wang, Stephen M. Kinane

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Patryk Czortek, Beata Olesik, Radosław Puchałka

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Xu Wu, Wenwei Yu, Rumeng Jiang, Shuangfu Wang, Yinge Xiao, Yunming Chen, Yaobin Niu

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Huihui Liu, Tingting Ren, Xiaoming Zou, Han Y.H. Chen, Rong Huang, Yu Fang, Guobing Wang, Honghua Ruan

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Katharina Lapin, Anja Meunier, Cornelia Amon, Owen Bradley, Laura Fels, Johann Püspök, Johanna A. Hoffmann, Janine Oettel, Felix K. Meyer, Frederik Sachser, Martin Steinkellner

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Nicolas Bélanger, Natalie L. Cleavitt

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Mathias Neumann, Sebastián Echeverría-Progulakis, Thomas Gschwantner, Tomáš Přívětivý

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Petra Peltola, Matti Maltamo, Tuukka Poutiainen, Viivi Pääkkönen, Aaron Petty, Fan Yang, Laura Pikkarainen, Lauri Korhonen, Pasi Rautio, Ville Hallikainen, Antti Kilpeläinen, Heli Peltola

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Feng Ta, Wen-mao Jing, Wei Liu, Ying Ma, Er-wen Xu, Wei-jun Zhao, Shu-hui Zhang, Meng Zhu, Xiao-dong Huang

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Tongtong Guo, Gongxiu He, Kelin Wang, Hu Du, Zhaoxia Zeng, Baozhen Li, Fuping Zeng, Xunyang He, Hao Zhang

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Kylie D. Gieser, Nicholas Flanders, Taylor M. Sloey

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Mohamed Louay Metougui, Hannu Ilvesniemi, Faouzi Bekkaoui

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Kaiyan Zhai, Pan Yin, Guiyao Zhou, Peter Dietrich, Xinli Chen, Silong Wang, Xiongqing Zhang, Weidong Zhang, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Mariano A. Trachta, Trevor D. Walker

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Yifan Guan, Shunyao Zhuang, Huili Wang

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Daniele Giannetti, Antonio Verolino, Giovanni Rabusin, Enrico Schifani, Nicola Rana, Gabriele Zanin, Gloria Credali, Emanuele Fior, Silvia Gisondi, Alessandro Campanaro, Donato A. Grasso

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Yuuki Tsunoda, Takaaki Tsuda, Yasuyuki Ohno

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Xue Meng Zhou, Xiaoguo Zhou, Xiaocai Tan, Jie Guan, Yuanguang Wen, Aiwu Jiang

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Hongfeng Zhu, Qian Peng, Yuanxiang Tang, Xinsheng Zhang, Chengming You, Bo Tan, Zhenfeng Xu

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Aidan C. Edwards, Jack D. Pritchard, Lars A. Brudvig

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Spencer Pearson-Atkins, Younes Alila, Xu Jian Yu

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Sebastian Schwegmann, Helena Jüngling, Mats-Henner Tadeus, Ilse Storch, Max Kröschel

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): P.-A. Esseen, M.B. Siewert, D.S. Coxson, Y. Gauslaa

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Scott R. Mitchell, Sandra J. DeBano, Mary M. Rowland, Skyler Burrows

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Zheng Wang, Huarong Zhang, Shouguo Liu, Ning Li

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Zeyu Zhou, Huiru Zhang, Ram P. Sharma, Xiaohong Zhang, Linyan Feng, Xuefan Hu, Zhaohui Yang, Manyi Du, Lianjin Zhang, Huanying Feng, Yang Yu

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Joseph L. Pettit, R. Justin DeRose, James H. Speer, Marilyn Kitchell, Dale Sparks, Susan C. Loeb, Joy M. O’Keefe

Publication date: 1 October 2026Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 617Author(s): Erşan Selvi, Desheng Liu, Pierluigi (Enrico) Bonello

Publication date: Available online 9 June 2026Source: Forest Ecology and ManagementAuthor(s): Riccardo Fornaro, Francesco Giannino, Mirjam Knörnschild, Danilo Russo

Publication date: Available online 22 May 2026Source: Forest Ecology and ManagementAuthor(s): Yafei Wang, Kai Wang, Xiaofei Ding, Kexin Xu, Guanbo Qu, Benye Xi, Liming Jia, Jie Duan

The Forest Service honors fallen personnel with deep respect for their service and heartfelt care for their families during a Dignified Transfer of Remains sequence captured in a program production published in 2026. The video offers a closer look at how the Forest Service Honor Guard and Family Liaisons listen carefully to each family’s wishes, guiding them through every step of bringing their loved one home. Supported by close collaboration with local units, funeral homes, and transportation partners, including commercial airlines, the teams strive to offer steady, thoughtful support to survivors during an incredibly difficult time. This film is dedicated to every Forest Service employee who lost their life while in service to this agency . We also honor the families and loved ones they left behind. (Forest Service video by M. Mislivets, J. Dickey, A. Friedrich, T. Legler, P. Lemmon, T. Lerke, C. Lunsford, and J. Zepeda)

Paul Brannen extols the benefits of commercial forestry, while Dr Andrew Cameron warns of Britain ‘offshoring’ its timbers supplies, and Jane Gifford calls on the Scottish government to review its forestry policyLast week you published a well-balanced piece on the success story that is Kielder Forest (How England’s largest forest went from commodity to conservation haven, 2 June). At the heart of this achievement has been learning from the planting mistakes of the 1970s. Today Kielder is successful both as a commercial forest, producing 25% of England’s homegrown timber, and in its biodiversity – providing habitat for red squirrels, voles and ospreys, for example.It was therefore disappointing to read your article on commercial forests this week (Tax-break trees: how woodland became a store of wealth for the rich, 7 June). Disappointing because it contained an unchallenged and outdated trope from Camilla Fowler, chair of the Lilliesleaf, Ashkirk and Midlem community council, who stated: “This kind of forestry scars the landscape and replaces it with monocultural, dark trees that harms our biodiversity.” Continue reading…

On April 10, 2026, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced an updated Heat National Emphasis Program (NEP) to protect workers from outdoor and indoor heat-related illnesses and injuries. Effective for five years from the date of publication, the revised NEP includes several notable changes from the original 2022 version: an updated list of […] The post OSHA Updates the Heat National Emphasis Program appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

Wildland firefighting is a coordinated effort. Like players on a sports team or musicians in an orchestra, hand crews, smokejumpers, water tenders, fire engines, helicopters, airtankers, and heavy equipment all converge on wildfires with two main goals: suppress the flames and do it safely. They all have a part to play.

Across the world, cities are confronting a common challenge. As populations grow and development intensifies, urban areas are becoming hotter, noisier and increasingly disconnected from nature.

Enfield council in north London took legal action against restaurant chain after outrage over damage to tree The UK restaurant chain Toby Carvery has settled a legal dispute over taking a chainsaw to an ancient oak tree without permission, by agreeing to pay to restore a lost orchard.The unauthorised partial felling of the 500-year-old oak next to a Toby Carvery car park in Whitewebbs Park, Enfield, north London, in April last year, prompted widespread public outrage and questions in parliament. Continue reading…

A groundbreaking new connectome maps every neural connection in an adult fruit fly’s central nervous system, creating an unprecedented view of how the brain and body work together. The findings suggest that complex behaviors emerge from distributed local circuits rather than a single central controller, offering new clues about intelligence, movement, and brain function.

Mangroves store vast amounts of climate-warming carbon. Sea level rise may push them past the brink, according to a new study.

CPR is best performed with compressions and rescue breaths. Photo courtesy of John Ball. Arborists have their Z133 Safety Requirements for Arboricultural Operations. This industry consensus standard provides them with the safety recommendations and requirements for performing their work. The Z is revised about every five or six years to reflect changes in […] The post First Aid and CPR: Key Changes For Arborists appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

Forests in the West used to be a lot more open, so wildfires were much less severe. How do we know? By looking at tree rings! We can actually see scars from old wildfires in cross-sections like this one. By cross-dating fire scars from multiple trees, scientists can reconstruct what past forests looked like including how dense forests were.

A SavATree climber in action. All photos and graphics courtesy of Sarah Cusack. Tree climbing is, by every physiological measure, an endurance sport. The average heart rate of an arborist working in the canopy hovers around 160 beats per minute – nearly identical to that of a marathon runner mid-race. The critical difference […] The post What Arborists Can Learn from Ultra-Endurance Sports appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

After decades of decline from human development and extreme weather, the world’s mangroves are growing again, according to a surprising new study looking at satellite images of coastal forests.

CS Tree Services crew members conducting a job briefing. Photo courtesy of Bob Rouse. Accreditation audits are more than a checklist exercise – they’re a window into how safety practices hold up in the real world. Out in the field, small oversights can quickly become serious risks. In Safety Snapshot, auditors share trends […] The post Safety Snapshot: Improving Documentation and Compliance appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

Mangrove forests are among our planet’s best environmental stewards and absorb up to 5-times more carbon than terrestrial trees.

Badenoch, Cairngorms: It started with a tiny Scots pine growing out of a huge old birch, but soon I find more examples of this strange magicThe sight pulls me up short. It looks like something out of myth or a book of spells. Here is a miniature Scots pine growing 6ft up, right in the fork of a shaggy old birch. It delights and baffles me in equal measure. In further wanderings, I discover more examples of this strange magic. A rowan and a birch appear to sprout from the same stem, while a holly and a hawthorn are so hopelessly intertwined that I spend ages tracing back down through leaves, twigs, branches and trunks just to figure out how deep this union goes. At the bottom, this odd pairing have drawn a rusted fence into their inter-species embrace.Investigating, I learn that there are a few wonders at work here. First, trees can grow so closely together that they become entangled and appear joined. Occasionally, though, limbs do repeatedly rub against each other in the wind, wear away the bark and fuse. Some even share vascular systems, passing water and nutrients between them. It is a natural grafting process called inosculation and can happen anywhere from the base of the trunk up to higher branches that form a linking arm. In folklore, it is called “a husband and wife tree”. Mostly occurring within species, it does sometimes cross divides. Continue reading…

Ideas come more quickly, my thoughts roam freely and I’m reminded I am not the main form of life on the planetI park my car near the trail head and leash up my labrador. Mist coils around the stringy trunks of the manna gums and I breathe in a lungful of cold, peppery air. With notebook in hand, I begin to walk.I learn a lot by walking in the forest every day. It’s like catching up on the daily news but with a focus more ecological than political. I see which trees have fallen, what flowers have burst into bloom, which animals have been busy overnight, what weather is coming in. Most of all, surrounded by growing, breathing things that aren’t human, I learn that I am not the main form of life on the planet but just one note in a vibrant choir of living beings. Importantly, I learn this with my brain but also my heart, lungs, muscles and skin. Continue reading…

Attempt to turn a stretch of the English-Scottish border into a commercial forest exposes threat to habitats from wealthy investorsOn the English-Scottish border a small species of butterfly, the northern brown argus, has fended off one of the biggest investors in the UK.Todrig, with its heath moorlands and hundreds of species of flora and fauna, represents an investment that could save Britain’s wealthiest families millions of pounds in inheritance tax. Continue reading…

Just a few species could determine the future of tropical forests by dispersing seeds that are essential for their regeneration.

Mark Chisholm, CTSP. Owner and climber, Aspen Tree Expert Company. Jackson, NJ. Climbing: 30+ years. MARK CHISHOLM, CTSP Favorite item in my gear bag: My Double-Bungee Rope Walking System. It’s the easiest system to enable me to ascend a large tree. The first one I created was to climb my first redwood in […] The post “What’s in Your Gear Bag?” See what climbers like to work with, from essential to nonessential gear appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

Reduction of excess soil and mulch around a young tree trunk. All photos courtesy of the authors. The information in our first article (published in the March 2026 issue of TCI Magazine) hopefully established biochar as a scientifically supported soil amendment capable of improving degraded urban-soil systems. Urban soils are recognized as fundamentally […] The post Biochar Application: Putting It All Together appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

Eggesford Forest, Devon: I thought I was alone in admiring a towering beech in the chilly wood, but I was notI breathe in the bluebells as a blackcap sings. At the crescendo, a flash of yellow breaks up the blue – a brimstone butterfly flies up to my face, then moves back, approaches, then draws back, repeating the fluttered action until I follow.Together, we weave through fresh-scented firs before my companion flits away and I realise that I have come further into the forest than intended. My feet start to throb and the wind, as the sky grows overcast, brings a chill. I see the leaves of a vaulted canopy stir overhead and feel the softest carpet of fallen catkins underfoot. Although the threat of rain urges me forwards, a tree, an imposing common beech, makes me stay. Continue reading…

After a period of burnout, I realised that nature knows what you need, and is always ready to offer it – you just have to be quiet enough to receive itIn 2022 I moved to Clevedon, near Bristol. As soon as I saw the oak tree behind my flat, I started sitting under it. It’s not in some beautiful, remote place – it’s on an urban hill surrounded by grassland – but as a solitary tree on the side of a hill, it drew my attention. I was burned out. For 10 years, I had run a nonprofit tackling plastic pollution. We had got the government to ban plastic cutlery and polystyrene takeaway packaging, and supermarkets to ban plastic cotton buds. They were major achievements, but it was hard work and I was exhausted. I was transitioning away from activism, and only working three days a week. Continue reading…

In western forests, multiple treatments are often needed to return forests to healthier conditions, more resilient to wildfire. New research explains why.

Swampy mangrove forests are staging a surprise comeback – which is good news for coastal communities and the climate.

With the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)’s approval, ISA is proud to announce that the new Z133-2026 Safety and Health Requirements standard is now available as of 27 May, 2026.  …

Illustration courtesy of Natalya Kosarevich/iStock Private equity is becoming more visible in tree care. Some business owners are being approached about selling their companies, while others are seeing nearby businesses merge, change ownership or become part of larger regional operations. For owners who have spent years managing day-to-day work and building customer trust, […] The post Private Equity 101: The Basics for Tree Care appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

The Tree Care Industry Association and ArborMAX Insurance have mutually agreed to conclude their endorsement partnership on June 26, 2026, bringing to a close a relationship that began in 2009. The endorsement was introduced at TCIA’s Winter Management Conference and played a key role in expanding access to insurance solutions for tree care companies. At […] The post TCIA and ArborMAX Insurance to Conclude Endorsement Partnership appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

The rescue of John Dear. Photo courtesy of Alanna Patterson. When a cat named John Dear spent days stranded in a bur oak in rural Iowa, tens of thousands of people on Threads, the social-media platform, began bracing for a bad ending. The cat’s owner, Theresa Klimesh, had already exhausted nearly every option […] The post Saving John Dear appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

Competitors from Miller’s Tree Service prepare for a day of climbing events. All photos courtesy of Miller’s Tree Service. I’ve been climbing trees for 23 years now. In that time, I’ve seen our industry evolve in some incredible ways. I’ve also seen how dangerous this work can be when training and teamwork fall […] The post How Climbing Competitions Build Better Crews appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

Implementing the restoration framework for frequent-fire forests (RMRS-GTR-310) requires a new approach to management. In this video we discuss: • The importance of local evidence and site-specific variability • Why leave-tree marking is most effect for forest restoration • How to proceed in the face of uncertainty For additional details and context, please refer to the restoration framework for frequent-fire forests (RMRS-GTR-310

A massive global analysis found that nitrogen pollution can either speed up or dramatically slow the natural “breathing” of forest soils, depending on the ecosystem’s condition. The results reveal hidden tipping points that could affect how forests store carbon and cope with climate change.

The June issue of  Arborist News  is available to read online. The articles featured in this issue include: ANSI A300 Standards Now Available in Spanish Solving the Language Issue for …

Kielder in Northumberland is balancing commercial production with conserving peatland and rare plants and animalsDriving through part of Northumberland, you might look around at the tall Sitka spruce and imagine yourself in Canada’s evergreen forests, or perhaps, on a sunny day, in northern California. Instead, you are in England’s largest forest, Kielder, often heralded as a success story that balances commercial production with ambitious conservation.The first trees of this 60,000-hectare forest were planted 100 years ago with one aim: increasing Britain’s timber reserves. Much has changed since then. From a single-use plantation, Kielder Forest has been transformed into a haven for nature and an invaluable environmental asset. Continue reading…

Canada’s forestry firebrand has a surprisingly rosy environmental outlook …

A grassroots project has turned deforested beaches into thriving ecosystems by planting 100,000 native treesPointing to a photograph of dry brown long grass hugging the shoreline, Gerardo Bolaños stands in front of a green oasis of seedlings and trees potted in black plastic bags. “This is what Playa Guiones looked like when we started in 2011,” says the executive director of Costas Verdes, a Costa Rican nonprofit.As howler monkeys growl in the background, Bolaños points to the picture next to it – an image of the same patch of land but with scores of flourishing, lush green trees. Today, he says, this is how the beach looks. Continue reading…

CNW/ – After regional workshops and competitions narrowed the field down from 485 students from nearly 70 schools across Ontario, a five-person team …

A British couple has spent 20 years perfecting the practice of sculpting trees to grow into the shapes of ready-made seats designed with living branches. Alice and Gavin Munro began creating the ‘furniture orchard’ on a two-acre English farm in 2006, but the harvesting typically takes between 6-9 years per chair. The process involves pruning The post Britain’s First Furniture Orchard Grows Chairs Right on the Trees (WATCH) appeared first on Good News Network.

Given the ravages of heat domes, atmospheric rivers, wildfires and industrial logging, part of me feared that what old-growth forest remained out west would soon be gone. At least once, I wanted Dez …

After receiving a $61-million boost from the federal government in 2024, the City of Calgary is ramping up its tree-planting program in a bid to expand the city’s lagging urban canopy.

Conservation groups warn slashing Darwin Initiative will put species and habitats in jeopardy, and set back efforts to halt decline in natureOne of the UK’s longest-standing funds for global nature protection is being drastically cut back, the Guardian has learned.At least 89 countries will lose eligibility for funding for biodiversity projects under the Darwin Initiative, in a round of cuts that conservationists warned would put species and habitats in jeopardy, and set back global efforts to halt the precipitous decline in nature. Continue reading…

The Marches, Shropshire: You never know what kind of parasites you might find lurking in an old tree“Oak apple day, the 29th of May,” is a rhyming reminder of the public holiday ordered by Charles II to celebrate the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. After his escape from parliamentarians by hiding in an oak tree at Boscobel in Shropshire, it is no great leap of imagination to associate a hidden king with oak apples: parasitic galls are strange, uncanny fruit that encourage satire at least.A month ago, the oak galls on this ancient tree were as shiny as cherries. Today they are bigger, browner and mottled, like weird little apples. They were formed when an agamic, wingless, female oak apple gall wasp, Biorhiza pallida, burrowed out from a gall in the oak’s roots, climbed the tree and injected a cluster of eggs and a drop of venom into a leaf bud. The hatched grubs then produced substances that caused a tumour-like effect on the oak cells, forming the apple, inside which the larvae fed in their chambers. Continue reading…

A casual walk through an Ithaca cemetery led to the discovery of a gigantic hidden bee population — roughly 5.5 million ground-nesting bees packed beneath the soil. Scientists believe it may be one of the largest bee aggregations ever documented and say the insects are crucial pollinators for apple orchards and other crops. The bees have likely lived there for more than 100 years, thriving in the cemetery’s undisturbed sandy soil.

Investigators are still searching for what caused the recent deaths of a mother and her calf, but conservationists say the animal’s shrinking habitat may be the first place to lookThe two elephants were found dead in the Indonesian province of Bengkulu, in an area of “production forest” in southern Sumatra. The mother and her calf were lying side by side with their tusks still intact.Unlikely to be poachers, the cause of their deaths – and that of a tiger nearby – at the end of April is still being investigated but conservationists say this is not an isolated case. It is estimated that seven wild elephants have died in Bengkulu since 2018. Continue reading…

Managers with the USDA Forest Service collaborated with various partners to apply the restoration framework in a ponderosa pine forest on the Cibola National Forest, New Mexico. In this video we discuss: • How to approach management prescriptions under the new framework (RMRS-GTR-310) • The importance of time for doing successful restoration • The importance of help from national and local partners in implementing restoration For additional details and context, please refer to the restoration framework for frequent-fire forests (RMRS-GTR-310).

From China’s arid Gansu Corridor comes the story of a rural county welcoming thousands of big city volunteers after a viral call for help. Minqin County is on the front line of China’s struggle against desertification, but it recently received a helping hand thanks to a social media campaign “Plant a Tree in Minqin.” It The post Facing Desertification, Man’s Campaign Draws 30,000 Volunteers to Plant 1 Million Trees in his County appeared first on Good News Network.

Campaign comes as Duchy of Cornwall announces plan to expand small pockets of ancient woodland at two sitesAlong a steep-sided valley, with the West Okement River roaring at its floor, the woodland emerges like an oasis in a closely grazed bare landscape.Squat, tightly clustered, with root systems heavily covered in thick lichens and mosses, the oak trees of Black-a-Tor copse are a tiny surviving cluster of European temperate rainforest dating back to the bronze age. Continue reading…

Deep inside 100-million-year-old amber from Myanmar, scientists uncovered a bizarre ancient bug with clawed front legs that look more like a crab’s pincers than anything seen in modern insects. The discovery is so unusual that researchers say these crab-like “chelae” evolved independently in this lineage, making it only the fourth known example of such structures appearing in insects at all.

Talybont, Ceredigion: On a crisp, post-rain morning, I take a walk among bright hawthorn blossom and the glittering pools of Cors FochnoOn the edge of Talybont, the small cemetery, kempt and cared for, overlooks the coast and the wild brown swathe of Cors Fochno (Borth Bog). A burial ground is perhaps an odd place to begin a walk, but, as a friend remarked, it’s infinitely better than ending one there.The early rain has cleared so the air is crisp and the colours deep. In the foreground, grassland fields slope away towards the wild expanse of the bog, bounded by wooded hedgerows bright with hawthorn blossom. The first cut of silage has been secured, baled and removed, and a few cattle are grazing the aftermath with interest while red kites traverse overhead. The surface of the bog, marked here and there by glittering open pools, shimmers slightly in the heat of the day. Across the Afon Dyfi, the steep-faced sand dunes of Aberdyfi are visible before the eye is drawn further off to the line of hills that defines the Llŷn peninsula. Continue reading…