The Post examined data that shows how the decisions being made now about what trees to plant in place of dying ones will ...

Question: we have several maple trees in our neighborhood afflicted with this black spot (see attached photo). What can we do to protect our maple trees? Anwer: while it is difficult to confirm a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. Many animal and plant species are predicted to move towards the poles under ...

Each week, the Intro to Trees of Indiana web series will offer a sneak peek at one species from the book, paired with an ID That Tree video from Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee to help ...

This might be a little controversial, but it’s been on my mind for a while. I was recently sitting in my backyard with my ...

MIDDLETOWN — We are lucky to have so many great forested trails in and around Middletown, and though they are mainly deciduous trees that senesce, or lose their leaves annually, there are still lots ...

Although pollen has covered cars for weeks and allergy sufferers have been sneezing, we think of sex as being the realm of animals. But plant sex can be quite interesting, especially in species that ...

MAPLE GROVE, Minn. (WCCO) --A Minnesota city is getting aggressive in saving its trees. In Maple Grove, a 20-year plan is now in place to fight a deadly invasive species. What once was a great ash ...

Moorhead - The box elder may be the Rodney Dangerfield of the tree world. Dismissed for its irregular form, weak wood and association with box elder bugs, the lowly tree gets no respect. But the ...

Acer macrophyllum, known as bigleaf maple or Oregon maple, is a large deciduous tree native to Western North America, and dons the largest leaf of any tree in North America — and the largest of all ...

The nights are still cold but days are (mostly) becoming milder. That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or ...

BREMERTON -- The thieves typically come at night, sometimes illuminating their work with headlamps or muffling the sound of chain saw exhaust by attaching a hose that runs into a bucket of water. When ...