A new study has introduced a powerful tool for analyzing satellite imagery of boreal forests (also known as 'Taiga' in North America ... to extract coniferous forest areas from Landsat satellite ...

Such swampy coniferous forest, or taiga, is typical of high northern latitudes ... including the one in Alaska. Today roughly 450 active smokejumpers are dispatched to wildland fires from these ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (Áakʼw Ḵwáan Territory)— A broad coalition of Alaska Native Tribes, commercial fishers, small tourism businesses, conservation groups and other forest advocates are seeking to defend ...

A new study has introduced a powerful tool for analyzing satellite imagery of boreal forests (also known as “Taiga” in North America), offering unprecedented insights ... introduced the "needleleaf ...

For those who want to base in a town but want to avoid the crowds and development of Anchorage, the forest's eastern edge is near the town of Cordova, a hidden destination on Alaska's coast.

The Trump administration’s purge of the federal workforce has reduced staff at popular forests and parks in Alaska ... part of the Tongass National Forest, have been terminated.

The forest is dense and made up of spruce and pine ... where she describes the location of coniferous or taiga forests around the world and what the climate is like. Ferne focuses on the ...