It’s Millie’s 4th birthday this weekend, and I wanted to celebrate with a special experience, so I hitched up the camper pod ...

One of the standout trees for autumn color is the sweetgum ( Liquidambar styraciflua ). Its easily recognizable star-like leaves transition from a glossy summer green to bright red, purple, burgundy, ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is now accepting seedling orders from Wisconsin landowners for spring ...

We were rafting down the Nantahala River in North Carolina, soon to brave my first Class III rapid. As I chatted with our ...

Chestnut trees began disappearing from eastern deciduous forests in the U.S. almost a century ago due to a nasty fungus. That has contributed to a vastly different eastern forest landscape today.

The fungus has decimated chestnut trees in the national park, and larger trees have been slow to replace them.

The treatment was required — death was all but certain without it — but the needle required to apply it was almost ...

We have received just over 2 inches of rain since Aug. 1. In fact, I looked back in my weather records, and the last time I ...

Overhead, turkey vultures and hawks circle looking for prey. Underfoot, snakes, salamanders and turtle hatchlings do their ...

The major forest health factors impacting Pennsylvania right now are non-native insect pests of Eastern hemlock trees, spongy moths and non-biotic factors causing oak tree decline and mortality, beech ...

A vigorous, broadly conical evergreen tree to 25m tall, with deeply furrowed, purplish-grey bark andshort, dark green, needle-like leaves, white beneath, borne in two ranks on slender shoots forming ...

A very slow growing dwarf conifer with densely arranged shoots and dark green, short needles, with blue-green cones appearing from May onwards. Growing wider than tall, it forms a bushy, rounded mound ...