In the political realm, candidates sometimes refer to an election victory with 55% of the vote as a "landslide." What would you call 99%? Based on an assessment of recent public input, it appears ...
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 ...
Walk through a hardwood forest in southern New Hampshire this year, and you may notice something unusual. Instead of their usual lush green canopy, some American beech trees look a bit weary — their ...
The controversial and slow-moving forest management plan inside the Hoosier National Forest hit another roadblock last week. All related activities — including timber sales, prescribed burns, road ...
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional information from the U.S. Forest Service. The spelling difference of the Lillie Pad Fire and Lilly Pad Trail is accurate, according to the ...
A Florida congressman's proposal to stitch together a patchwork of springs in North and Central Florida into the country's 64th national park won't help protect the state's outstanding, and crucial, ...
U.S. Rep. Randy Fine of Florida has introduced legislation that could eventually lead to designating the vast Ocala National Forest and surrounding springs as a national park. But at this point, he is ...
A push in Congress to designate Ocala National Forest and the surrounding springs is drawing mixed feedback from locals, economists and conservationists. Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., has proposed the bill ...
When Florida Congressman Randy Fine offered a bill this summer to study transforming Ocala National Forest into Florida Springs National Park, one of the benefits he cited was an economic boom that ...