Increasing tree species diversity is often regarded as a way to make forests more resilient to climate change. However, a new ...

Mark Harmon crouches low next to log number 219: a moss-covered western hemlock tree trunk, five meters long, lying dead on ...

Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 years, and he’s found a complex world few ...

The Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail, which passes through Castle Rock, is one of the Bay Area’s classic backpacking routes, stretching 31 miles from the ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains all the way to the ...