Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates a dichotomy where forests are treated either as plantations or reserves.

There has been much global discussion about the best ways to manage Earth’s forests in an era of climate change and more frequent bushfires. In its new forest plan, the Victorian government has funded ...

After more than a century of fire suppression in California’s forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire — through practices like prescribed fire or Indigenous cultural burning — can improve ...