DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn and Pennsylvania State Forester Seth Cassell announced the launch of Forests for All – A Plan for Pennsylvania’s Forests and People, during an event dedicated ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WHTM) — Pennsylvania is known for its densely wooded areas, featuring tall trees, streams, creeks, lakes, and mountains. Many forests are considered state forests. In Pennsylvan… ...

The state Bureau of Forestry, part of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, is working on the strategic plan to be finalized either late this year or in early 2025.

Pennsylvania's state parks and forests are preparing for a record-breaking summer.Video above: Camping at Gifford Pinchot State ParkThe Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR ...

About 60% of Pennsylvania is covered with forest and Cassell said that has made the state relatively stable in the past 50 years. “What we are beginning to see is the potential for that we might ...

Pennsylvania also has 2.2 million acres of Forest Stewardship Council certified sustainable state forest spread across tracts in 49 of the state’s 67 counties.

Research by the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Penn State University discovers the truth about deer movements during rut, ...

First of two partsAfter a sustained recovery following clearcutting in the last century, Pennsylvania forests are again losing ground, a Penn State University professor of forest resources said ...

According to a report by the Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation, about 65,000 volunteers in 46 friends of state park or forest groups and 15 other groups put in those hours, which the ...

WILKES-BARRE (AP) – Not many trees survived the ax when most of Pennsylvania’s forests were clearcut more than one hundred years ago. But those that did have now reached enormous proportions ...

Pennsylvania forests are facing looming threats that could catastrophically change the state’s landscape. Two academics, Ryan Utz, an assistant professor of water resources at Chatham University ...

Woods are literally in Pennsylvania's name, but protecting forests isn't a sure thing with threats like climate change, development and invasives. A new strategic plan aims to help.