Nest boxes can encourage owls to stick around your yard, but it's best if they're made of untreated wood. This centuries-old technique helps protect them.

When trees are very dry, they don’t have the energy to grab nutrients from the ground and create leaves. Lodgepole and ...

As dry conditions weaken trees and mountain pine beetles take hold, impacts could range from recreation danger to wildfire risk.

The ivory-bill thrived best in southern pine forests in areas where flooding, fire and other natural disturbance killed trees, which in turn became breeding grounds for insects — chiefly beetle ...

Of Washington's 22 million forested acres, the Department of Natural Resources manages about 3 million acres of state land.

A new ladybird beetle species was hiding in plain sight on a Japanese campus, exposing how easily even well-studied insects ...

Deep freezes in 2023 and 2024 provided relief for some of Maine’s most preyed-on tree species. Will that continue in 2026?

University campuses are often places of learning and discovery, but rarely do researchers find a new species living right on their doorstep. However, that is exactly what happened when a research team ...

American beeches (Fagus grandifolia) have been suffering recently from a disease widespread in both Connecticut landscapes and forests, Beech leaf disease (BLD), caused by a foliar nematode, ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — After the city removed nearly 200 pine trees from public parks and golf courses due to bark beetle infestations, Spokane homeowners need to know how to protect the pine trees in their ...

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