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Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

South Asian fishing cats have been caught on camera hunting chicks in tree tops, potentially solving the mystery of how this vulnerable species survives during the monsoon season. When you purchase ...

Big Lonely Doug is a sight to behold—achingly beautiful yet incredibly sad. The thousand-year-old, two-hundred-foot Douglas Fir stands in the midst of a vast clear-cut on the rugged west coast of ...

Maybe you climbed trees as a kid in your backyard. But have you ever wondered what it would be like to climb a 300-foot-tall Douglas fir? At Silver Falls State Park, you now have the opportunity to ...