The mourning cloak, so named because its dark brown body with a pale yellow band along the outer wing margin is reminiscent ...

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown discovers a new identification guide devoted to educating about trees and disclosing how important they are ...

South Carolina’s Morgan Island, also known as Monkey Island, has the largest rhesus monkey colony in the US. It was also ...

Huron-Clinton Metroparks are a great place for dog owners who want to walk, run or just hang out with their pets.

Clockwise: Michael Greenstein examines the bark of a Chinese elm in his collection in Los Altos; A liquidambar, also known as an American sweet gum tree, that Greenstein is growing in a pot; Deadwood ...

Detectives in the Pacific Northwest are using new forensics technology to track down timber poachers and save old-growth ...

In a culture obsessed with competition, it comes as no surprise that even our trees have been put to the test. In honor of ...

Landscape designer recommends trees that are able to withstand the increased heat, erratic weather and shifting precipitation ...

Among the oaks, white, red and bur oak all stand tall as ecological heavyweights. Their acorns feed wildlife, their canopies ...

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 ...

Prairie and savanna prescribed fires can be good trouble if they’re carefully timed and controlled. Their purpose is to help ...