Nature lovers need to go no further than the canopied campus of SUNY New Paltz to enjoy a rich variety of tree canopies, trunks, branches and blossoms getting ready to burst. There is a 1.5-mile ...

Participants at last week’s annual Michigan Society of American Foresters conference in Bellaire discussed how bark and ...

After a long day of photographing wildlife, columnist Bill Danielson spots a porcupine munching on flower buds high in a ...

The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understorey due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of ...

It was the end of an exciting day of nature photography and as I pulled into my driveway I figured that I was done for the ...

If your favorite ash isn’t dead or dying yet, it will be soon as new communities are becoming infested daily. Here are some replacement options.

Check out these choices to beautify your yard and increase property values. There’s a reason Arbor Day is celebrated in ...

Japanese maples have become a well-loved small tree in the Southern garden. I have been to many gardens and folks are so ...

It wasn’t until the 1960s and ‘70s when interest in Japanese gardens began to develop. These special maples again caught the ...

Listed on the UK Red List for Birds of Conservation Concern since 2002, ring ouzel populations have declined due to habitat loss and climate change. Once more widespread, the species now mainly breeds ...

The bark of a tree is its own protection against the weather. While we shrug on a coat when it’s wet or cold, a tree will grow its own to insulate itself, keeping moisture out when it’s raining and in ...