We present an integrated system for performing precision harvesting missions using a legged harvester (HEAP) in a confined, GPS denied forest environment. The mission starts with a human mapping the ...

Two years ago, Durango and the surrounding area had a bumper crop of apples. The lack of a spring freeze when the trees were in blossom made for heavy loads, bending branches and all sorts of fruit.

Deep in northern Michigan’s Huron-Manistee National Forest, the air reverberates with the sound of a tree harvester picking up fully grown jack-pines out of the ground like toothpicks. Once the trees ...

GREEN RIVER - Wanted: About 20 good men willing to climb 100-year-old whitebark pine trees in the Bridger-Teton National Forest to pick pine cones for grizzly bear recovery. Bridger-Teton National ...