forests

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For decades, researchers believed our ancestors mainly stuck to open grasslands and coastal regions, avoiding the thick forests of Africa until much later in history.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

Sharda Devi, 55, a settler's daughter, recalls the first arrivals "toiling in some of the harshest conditions" to carve plantations out of the tangled forests.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Money from logging — roughly $8.5 million a year — pays for management of the forests by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

But amid the ocean mists and old-growth forests, things don’t go as planned.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

For more than 100 years, Mount St. Helens had been quiet, a beautiful mountain surrounded by forests.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis