Boreal Mountain Resort opened for the 2023-2024 season Friday – on schedule.The Sierra-area ski resort spent the past few weeks watching the forecast and blowing snow from the snow makers any ...

Boreal is at around 7,200 feet in elevation, allowing relatively colder conditions to create more snow than other resorts. Currently, two runs are open: South 40 and Big Blue.

“Boreal forests could be a time bomb of carbon, and the recent increases in wildfire emissions we see make me worry the clock is ticking,” said study author Steven Davis, ...

And since the early-2000s these deer have moved north into the boreal forests of western Canada. These forests are full of spruce and pine trees, sandy soil and freezing winters with lots of snow.

According to a recent study led by UW associate professors, the increase in boreal forest fires will lead to a slowdown in ...

A boreal owl peers out from a nest box north of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in March 2024. (Photo by Kristen Rozell) During studies in the early 2000s, biologist Jack Whitman found that ...

Boreal chickadees, gray jays, great gray owls and black-backed woodpeckers are among the few who make their homes deep in the black spruce. In June 1975, ...

Only 800 adult boreal toads may be left in Colorado. Conservationists from Denver Zoo and Colorado Parks and Wildlife race to save the amphibian alpine species. Skip Navigation.

"Boreal forests are more active than 50 years ago," says geochemist Heather Graven of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, lead author of the new analysis, published online August 8 in Science.

Boreal forests encircle the cold, northern regions of our planet. They host a diverse set of species, regulate global climate by storing huge amounts of carbon in the trees and soils, and provide ...

In Lake County, hundreds of baby boreal toads were recently released into an alpine lake near Leadville to help restore the ...