Fall is more than a season as walnuts and acorns obey Newton’s law of gravity, and the Virginia Department of Forestry wants ...

Have you noticed any fallen acorns, walnuts and chestnuts covering sidewalks, parking lots, or even your yard? The Virginia Department of Forestry is asking people to collect them to help grow ...

Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 years, and he’s found a complex world few ...

A rare bee species native to New York state was discovered in Syracuse at a SUNY College of Environmental Science and ...

A race is underway to save Ontario’s vanishing American chestnut trees, once a dominant species in the province’s southern ...

In June 2023, I followed my friend Josh past old, arching oaks and tall tulip poplars along a path in Carpenter’s Woods in Wissahickon Valley Park in search of a rare and intriguing pair of trees he ...

Labels, particularly when applied to human beings and their behavior, can have a surprisingly polarizing effect, regardless of the label’s efficacy. Some people resist labels altogether, while others ...

Uncontained refuse and spilled residue in dumpster area are creating a pest harborage as evidenced by flies and maggots observed in area. Remove unnecessary items and clean spilled residue to control ...

“You are forbidden to go to Old Hickory,” Brian Dempsey’s mother told him as a child in the Mississippi Delta. So, of course he went—though not right away. He describes Old Hickory as “an island of ...

Learn how to identify the horse chestnut tree by its large leaves, spiky seed pods, and shiny brown conkers found across parks and gardens. FBI raids former national security adviser John Bolton's ...

If I could walk among any of Earth’s vanished species, I most wish I had lived alongside the American chestnut. Existing at the cusp of time between rapid industrial development at the end of the 19th ...