Forget for a minute the good the serve and focus on the property value of the house. Many, many houses on the mountain are ...

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 ...

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 ...

TANNERSVILLE — Marc Wolf steps off a trail at the Mountaintop Arboretum to examine a beech tree with mottled, bumpy bark. “This is pretty typical of beech bark disease,” he said. “Beech ...

Eastern hemlock branches infested with hemlock wooly adelgid, seen as small white puffs at the bases of the needles. Credit: Leigh Greenwood, The Nature Conservancy While scientists will debate which ...

The Pennsylvania legislature designated the eastern hemlock the official state tree on June 22, 1931. This tree thrives in cool, moist sites. It occupies steep north- or east-facing slopes in ...

If hemlock trees on your property show signs of hemlock woolly adelgid infestation, now is a good time to plan for spring treatment of this invasive species. Hemlock woolly adelgid, native to Asia, is ...

If one or more trees are infested, make plans to act this year. Without treatment, trees infested with hemlock woolly adelgid are likely to die within four to 10 years.

On the Trails: Tree bark By Mary F. Willson Monday, February 10, 2025 9:05am Sports Columns Nature Outdoors and Recreation ...

Our native eastern hemlock tree is rather unique. It is described by my forestry mentor Gary Saunders in his book Trees of Nova Scotia, as “a large conifer with small, glossy, stalked needles; ...

Despite Taylor intervening to try to save the tree, it succumbed to a bark beetle infestation, and was cut down in 2014. At the time, it had a volume of more than 9,000 cubic feet.

The sugar maple in 2022; photographs of the tree taken in 1942, top, and 1952; the tree’s bark; and its stump. Still, I hoped we could save her. Prune the dead limbs. Trim back.