The 2009 Black Saturday fires burned 437,000 hectares of Victoria, including tens of thousands of hectares of Mountain Ash forest. As we approach the tenth anniversary of these fires, we are reminded ...

It will take up to eight decades, not 10 to 15 years, for forest soil damaged by logging or wildfires to recover, revealed a new study. A team of scientists investigated the soil of the Ash Mountain ...

Researchers have found that forest soils need several decades to recover from bushfires and logging -- much longer than previously thought. A landmark study from The Australian National University ...

Australian National University’s Elle Bowd led a research team that collected 729 soil cores from 81 sites in the mountain ash forests of southeast Australia. The sampling sites had been subjected to ...

Logging around the Basin Creek Reservoir will not seriously damage the soils, said Forest Service officials. The agency has completed a draft study on soils and is preparing a final version as ...

Jan. 23 (UPI) --Many forest species can rebound relatively quickly in the wake of wildfire. Some animals even thrive among the newly scorched environs. But according to new research, forest soil takes ...

Continually logging and re-growing tropical forests to supply timber is reducing the levels of vital nutrients in the soil, which may limit future forest growth and recovery, a new study suggests.