Imagine wandering through a sun-dappled Australian eucalyptus forest, the air tinged with a faint, earthy scent. High above, ...

LACEY - Southern Ocean County is still dry and the entire Garden State remains under high fire risk as the Jones Road Fire continues to burn, nearly one week after it started.

With a growing population and rising demands for timber and recreation, it calls for increased conservation awareness and proactive forest management to ensure forests thrive for future generations.

The site of the fire is near an alpaca farm. The farm said in a Facebook post that the property wasn’t threatened and all of the animals were safe. The blaze is the second major forest fire in ...

it instead made the landscape less hospitable to humans and animals alike. In the West, fire suppression, combined with climate change, has turned coniferous forests into tinderboxes, hot and dry ...