The Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area, just a mile from downtown, offers hiking trails that lead to the highest point in Orange County. The summit provides spectacular views of the surrounding ...

Looking for a plant to help you fill those tough to manage spots in the drier and shadier parts of the garden? Here are three ...

Beech trees across the state are seeing worsening symptoms of the fast-spreading complex beech leaf disease, according to the Maryland Department of Agriculture. The disease affects all beech species, ...

DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has ...

All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers. "So here is actually some flowers," ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly covering West Marin, including the towns of Point Reyes Station, Inverness, Bolinas, Stinson Beach, Marshall, Nicasio, Lagunitas, Woodacre, San Geronimo, Forest Knolls, ...

Planting trees has plenty of benefits, but this popular carbon-removal method alone can't possibly counteract the ...

It would take more than 9.5 million square miles of trees to offset the emissions of the world’s 200 largest fossil fuel ...

Centuries ago this tree was used for all kinds of medicinal properties of its bark and pods. The name of catalpa originated with North American native peoples and means “head with wings.” This refers ...

As North America’s native prairies were converted to agriculture, Greater Prairie-Chicken populations plummeted. The eastern subspecies, known as the Heath Hen, went extinct in 1932, while the ...

Native to North America, catalpa trees in June display clusters of white bell-shaped flowers before producing their distinctive 10-20 inch seed pods in fall.