Forests

The micro ecosystems are popular around the world but haven’t gained footing in the St. Louis region. Some people hope they could lessen the impacts of floods.

There are hundreds of volunteers who are already helping the Mark Twain National Forest, and there could be more out there. The forest service is looking to find them and better coordinate their efforts.

City officials in Carbondale passed a resolution that supports changing Shawnee National Forest into a national park and climate preserve.

Dawn Laybolt is new to the Mark Twain National Forest but not the U.S. Forest Service, having served in various roles at a number of forests over the past 13 years.

Three decades ago, the Shawnee National Forest was the focus of fierce battles over commercial logging on public lands. A new documentary revisits that history and calls attention to new efforts to preserve the forest.

Advocates say growing niche market food, herbs and botanicals lowers the entry cost to farming and can also make smaller farms more profitable.

ROLLA - Kudzu and other invasive plants are threatening parts of the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri’s Ozarks, and goats might be part of the…

A stand of trees in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri looks a little more sparse than what is often depicted in a forest. The trees are eight...

Before the end of March, scientists from Washington University in St. Louis plan to burn parts of an Ozark forest about 30 miles outside of St. Louis.…

In 1929, Luther Ely Smith, whom the National Park Service calls “the father of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial,” convened a group of civic…