Trees are indispensible for life as we know it. They clean our air, shade our streets, anchor our soil, and bring beauty to our landscapes. Beyond their environmental services, trees carry deep ...

We have recently seen a horrible example of tree mutilations at the corner of Highway 82 and El Jebel Road in front of the commercial plaza. Large and medium-sized willow, elm, locust and aspen trees ...

Q: A couple of doors down from our home there is a large, round-headed shaped tree in the yard that has fairly large clusters of white blooms. Sort of shaped like a cluster of grapes. When we asked ...

An unsatisfactory approach to tree maintenance or pruning is “topping” it. Topping is the indiscriminant removal of branches of a tree above an arbitrary height, leaving unnatural, grotesque stubs and ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The original range of the locust is in the Appalachian, Ozark and Ouachita ...

If plants were capable of expressing emotions similar to humans, area mesquite trees might literally turn green with envy and become jealous of another area leguminous tree species. This inhabitant of ...