The Pennsylvania legislature designated the eastern hemlock the official state tree on June 22, 1931.This tree thrives in ...

Tree resins are among nature’s most intriguing gifts. Prized for their scent, versatility, and symbolism, they’ve played ...

Imagine trying to tell identical twins apart just by looking at their fingerprints. That's how challenging it can be for scientists to distinguish the tiny powdery pollen grains produced by fir, ...

The calendar indicates that it’s spring, and despite occasional freezing temperatures and lingering patches of snow, the ...

The Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC) is cautioning forest landowners about brown spot needle blight, a fungal disease that ...

Downed pine trees develop a fungal stain quickly, losing their value as timber. Stressed or damaged pines and fresh pine ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WALA) - The Alabama Forestry Commission says on its Facebook page that fungal disease is affecting pine trees in the state. Here is the post: Montgomery, Ala. – Last year, southern ...

Campaigners are "disgusted" at plans to cut down a 200-year-old tree which is a major feature of a Plymouth park in an act of ...

Over the course of his hike, he identified 14 Jeffrey pine trees thriving above 11,800 feet. Some were over 20 years old. The highest of them stood at 12,657 feet. That shattered the previous known ...

then a lodgepole pine—trees he expected to see at such high elevations. "Then I thought, 'What's that?'" said Safford, a forest ecologist in the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

“It’s very likely that pine beetles and other wood borers are ... “We do some salvage work. We clean up the trees that are broken and damaged,” Martell said. “Do we leave seed trees?