Naturally occurring crown lift is the physiological response to competition for available light and space. (Illustration by Amy Vaughn of...

Sometimes people will ask, “What’s an acre of trees worth?” Obviously, a regular reader of Forest & People magazine would know that to...

The tremendous wildfires of the summer 2023 really got the attention of Louisiana residents. These fires were bad; they were terrible....

Forgive us our trespasses is more than a prayer for some foresters. It is a hope that after doing the right thing by notifying...

Landowners go to forestry meetings and they keep hearing a term used ... “basal area” and they wonder, “What in the world is Basal Area?”...

Just received my 2021 “Old Farmer’s Almanac” and anxiously thumbed to the weather section, page 97 to be exact. With my hands shaking, my...