Many people like to have some trees in their landscape. Our property has both white and pin oaks (a member of the red oak group). I recently saw an oak gall on a small pin oak. This is created when a ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Since 2016, a dedicated group of nature enthusiasts and I have worked to restore and protect monarchs ...

My grandfather, Theodore Otto Herman Hill, or “Thunderhead” as he was more appropriately known, was a hunter, a taxidermist and a Teddy Roosevelt conservationist. He was the frontiersman type. He ...

Fall is an ideal time to consider planting an oak tree. The mighty oak, America’s National Tree, is visually appealing, with this wide leafy crown and broadly spreading limbs. Yet, it is more than a ...

HAMPTON, Va. — Most locals don’t know exactly how long it’s been here. They say at least 300 years. It was around before any of the buildings that stand today in this city of 134,000 on the Chesapeake ...

The Linden Oak, a tree that has likely been around since at least George Washington’s birth in 1732, was cut down Tuesday by a Montgomery County, Maryland, forestry crew. The chainsaws and wood ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Anyone who’s visited Ann Arbor’s West Park in the last year or so and looked up may have noticed more branches on some of Tree Town’s majestic oaks going bare. The bur oaks serve as a ...

A heritage oak fell in Anneke and Ray Dempsey’s Palo Alto yard during the March 14, 2023 storm. Courtesy Anneke and Ray Dempsey. Anneke Dempsey was concerned about the giant oak in her backyard for ...

AUBURN, MI-- It was said to be timeless, eternal, everlasting. After all, it had been there forever. None of this was true, of course. Death comes to all. Even the mighty oak of Bay City Western. As ...