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

San Juan, Puerto Rico — Authorities in Puerto Rico are searching for a tourist from Wisconsin they say got lost in the dense tropical rain forest of El Yunque in the U.S. territory's east.

Across western North America, in millions of acres of pine forest, the story is the same ... and it’s as important as rain to their health. It nourishes soil, spreads seeds, creates openings ...

With mild temperatures, a light breeze and ground still damp from recent rain and snow ... in Francis Marion National Forest was historically covered with longleaf pine. Both loblolly and longleaf ...