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NPR's David Baron reports that wild turkeys, once endangered, are now making a comeback in the nation's forests. Unregulated hunting and the widespread clearing of land for farming had made the turkeys rare...but now, after careful monitoring and preservation efforts, the birds are staging a remarkable recovery.

NPR's Ivan Watson reports on illegal logging of rainforests in Liberia. Since the end of the country's civil war in 1997, the export of timber has been the government's main source of revenue. But now conservationists are worried that under the current rate of depletion, the forests may not be there 10 years from now.

Rescuers have come to the aid of a hiker who became stranded along a steep Mount Washington trail.The U.S. Forest Service says Frank Tonioli of Halifax,…

Ingrid Lobet of member station KPLU reports on the scramble to do business in the Russian Far East. Huge reserves of oil and gas as well as timber and other natural resources are about to be exploited, and entrepreneurs who cut their teeth in the Alaskan oil fields and northwestern forests are eager to try their hand in Russia.

Charles Michael Ray grew up in the Black Hills of South Dakota on the banks of Boxelder Creek downstream from the town of Nemo.

Andrea Seabrook covers Capitol Hill as NPR's Congressional Correspondent.

A listing of concerts, coffehouses, festivals and dances in our listening area.

Investigators spent months searching for the owner of the elaborate treehouse hidden in a national forest near Seattle.

The wildfire burst into Yosemite National Park on Friday after growing to more than 105,620 acres, the U.S. Forestry Service says. Gov. Brown declared a state of emergency for San Francisco, 150 miles away, because of the fire's threat to public utilities.

At least 10% of the world's giant sequoia trees were destroyed in one California wildfire in the Sierra Nevada last year.