The wind and the dry climate are the perfect combination for huge fires, and in order to get the forest close to what it was before, there are a lot of reforestation steps to take. Skip to content ...

La Otra Opcion before regeneration. Image courtesy of La Otra Opcion. “Today, only 1.5 to 10% of the original forest remains at most,” Hernández tells Mongabay.

Scientists have studied a forest in Panama over a 100-year period to build a long-term picture of its regeneration, and found a heightened focus on plant-animal interactions may be our best course ...

More information: Jonah Busch, Cost-effectiveness of natural forest regeneration and plantations for climate mitigation, Nature Climate Change (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41558-024-02068-1 . www.nature ...

Forest regeneration has emerged as a powerful tool, not only for capturing atmospheric carbon, but also for regulating local climates. However, forests play a dual role in altering local ...

Forest rejuvenation—the process in which new trees establish themselves and start to grow—is very important for the future forest structure, biodiversity, growth and resilience of the forest.

Of the nearly 800,000 acres of trees that Helene downed, about 187,000 lie in national forests. Salvage logging is the Forest Service’s primary method of handling such a large disturbance.