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  • Illustration of mushroom wearing a party hat.
    In the Western United States, shallow rocky soils and a dry climate often make it hard for new trees to…
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    Are We Having Fungi Yet? Helping Young Trees Grow

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    In the Western United States, shallow rocky soils and a dry climate often make it hard for new trees to…
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    Are We Having Fungi Yet? Helping Young Trees Grow (Spanish)

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    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

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    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)

  • Cover of the "Can We Grow Now?" article featuring a close up photo of a bristlecone pine cone.
    Bristlecone pines have an interesting relationship with fire. When a fire occurs, it may open a once-closed area to sunlight.…
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    Can We Grow Now? Helping Bristlecone Pine Trees To Take Root and Grow

  • 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

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    Fusiform Rust Disease is one of the most destructive diseases to pine forests in the southeastern United States. Research on…
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    Controlling the Rust Is a Must! Detection of a Major Gene for Rust Resistance to Fusiform Rust Disease

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    Fusiform Rust Disease is one of the most destructive diseases to pine forests in the southeastern United States. Research on…
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    Controlling the Rust Is a Must! Detection of a Major Gene for Rust Resistance to Fusiform Rust Disease (Spanish)

  • Illustration of scientist taking notes on a tree in the summer time in one half, and the other half during the winter.
    Sunlight is the source of energy for plants, which create food through photosynthesis. Photosynthesis occurs in the foliage, or the…
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    Finding Ways to Soak Up the Rays: Lodgepole Pine Adaptation to Different Environmental Conditions

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    Sunlight is the source of energy for plants, which create food through photosynthesis. Photosynthesis occurs in the foliage, or the…
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    Finding Ways to Soak Up the Rays: Lodgepole Pine Adaptation to Different Environmental Conditions (Spanish)

  • Drawing of mice eating spotted knapweed.
    In the Western United States, spotted knapweed is one of the most widely found nonnative plants. Spotted knapweed was brought to the United…
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    Goll-ly! Don’t Take a Knapweed! The Impact of Nonnative Plants and Animals on Deer Mice

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    In the Western United States, spotted knapweed is one of the most widely found nonnative plants. Spotted knapweed was brought to the United…
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    Goll-ly! Don’t Take a Knapweed! The Impact of Nonnative Plants and Animals on Deer Mice (Spanish)