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  • The cover for the 'Tale of Two Caves' article. The main image is a photo of a person standing in a small passageway of a cave.
    Caves are important natural features in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California. Past studies of some of these…
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    A Tale of Two Caves: How Is Hurricane Crawl Cave Different From Crystal Cave?

  • The opening pages of the All About Forests Reader
    In this Reader, Woodsy Owl teaches about types of forests and explores what makes forests important. We rely on forests…
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    All About Forests

  • The cover of the All About Forests Reader, featuring an illustrate Woodsy Owl standing on a rock outcropping in a forest.
    Woodsy Owl wants to teach you all about different types of forests and why they are important! This Reader is…
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    All About Forests – Vol.1 No. 13

  • The cover for 'All Over the Map' article. The main image is the USGS Community Internet Intensity Map of a section of Virginia.
    The Did You Feel It? (DYFI) system allows Internet users to report earthquake data when they feel an earthquake. The…
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    All Over the Map: Investigating the Did You Feel It? Citizen Science System

  • The cover of "Back to the Future" featuring a black and white photo of a tree stump left from a volcanic explosion in the Inyo Craters in California.
    The tree line is the edge of a habitat at which trees are capable of growing. In this study, the…
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    Back to the Future: Using Dead Trees to Predict Future Climates

  • illustration of a landscaper in a crane, sawing a tree
    Too much carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is mostly caused by two things: burning fossil fuels and the loss…
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    Balancing Act: Urban Trees and the Carbon Cycle

  • Balancing Act cover in Spanish
    Too much carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is mostly caused by two things: burning fossil fuels and the loss…
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    Balancing Act: Urban Trees and the Carbon Cycle (Spanish)

  • A black and white illustration of a group of beetle larvae sleeping inside a tree trunk.
    Mountain pine beetles are important to the Western United States. They have a very special life cycle that includes staying…
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    Beetles Are Supercool! Understanding the Life Cycle of Mountain Pine Beetles

  • PDF preview of the Spanish version of "Beetles Are Supercool"
    Mountain pine beetles are important to the Western United States. They have a very special life cycle that includes staying…
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    Beetles Are Supercool! Understanding the Life Cycle of Mountain Pine Beetles (Spanish)

  • Cover for the 'Cedar Waxing or Waning' article. The main image is a photograph of a heavily wooded forest.
    As the climate changes, the tree species living in a forest may also change. This change means that some trees…
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    Cedar Waxing or Waning? The Potential to Save Yellow-Cedar Trees Using Adaptive Management

  • PDF preview of Everything But the Carbon Sink article cover.
    The scientists in this study were interested in environmental changes occuring in the Southern United States. The scientists were interested…
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    Everything but the Carbon Sink: Carbon Storage in the Southern United States

  • PDF preview of World's Forests Inquiry 1 article.
    Different types of forests are found across the planet. In one area, a forest may be dry with little vegetation.…
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    Inquiry 1: What Are the World’s Forests and Where Are They Found?