A pair of Fox Chapel area Eagle Scout hopefuls are seeking the highest honor in scouts through nature projects. Josh Lowe, who recently graduated from Fox Chapel Area High School, is in the process of ...

Toxic and poisonous plants grow in Michigan, including giant hogweed, poison ivy, poison oak, wild parsnip, poison sumac and poison hemlock. Contact with the plants can cause skin irritation ...

A few weeks ago a reader suggested I write about beech leaf disease, but I said it wasn’t that big a deal. Then I went for a ...

Located in Pennsylvania, there is a short yet remarkable trail within a state park that has a mossy path that feels like it ...

The country's tallest eastern hemlock, reaching to the sky from a cove of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, towers 173.1 feet from its 5-foot-thick base to its last pencil-thin sprig. The tree is ...

Have you ever paused beneath a towering oak or maple and wondered if that rough, gnarled bark is hiding secrets? What if I told you ... Read more The post What Tree Bark Can Tell You About Local ...

HOUSTON - Cork tree bark has long been used in Asia to fight inflammation. "People in China, they take this bark, they actually make a concoction out of this bark, and that concoction they drink ...

Poison hemlock contains the chemical compound coniine, a poisonous alkaloid. Although mentioned in Anglo-Saxon medicine as early as the 10th century, overdose produces paralysis causing ...

Water hemlock has fern-like, glossy, and sharply toothed leaves and Queen Anne's Lace has a more finely divided foliage," Johnson added. If you spot a plant that looks like water hemlock, you can ...

Some trees across Prince Edward Island are dying as the population of spruce bark beetles surges because of stress and damage caused by post-tropical storm Fiona in 2022. Experts say the beetles’ ...

The natural amphitheater is surrounded by hemlock trees and mountain laurel blooms with a crystal clear pond stageside. Many refer to it as “Kentucky’s Red Rocks” — a reference to the ...

For Lee, not being physically able to tackle Bark at the Moon’ s gung-ho riffwork is the worst-case scenario. That’s necessitated a plan B. Just in case.