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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.

Two of the top three deadliest fires in U.S. history were in Minnesota. In response to the fires, the Minnesota forestry service was established in the early 1900s, creating the system of fire towers.

Today in Mumbai, Indian commandos continued to battle militants in three locations, eventually recapturing the Oberoi Trident Hotel and a Jewish Center. What could be the final push to retake the Taj hotel began toward the end of the day. The death toll is more than 120, including an American rabbi and his wife at the Jewish Center.

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.

The debate over Keystone XL is nothing compared to the battle over the nation's first commercial oil pipeline. It transformed how energy was transported forever — but not without sabotage and threats.