Red cedar trees in the Pacific Northwest, known as climate canaries, are facing die-offs due to climate change-induced drought, forest health specialists say.

Remember that there are both male and female trees in the juniper genus. If the red cedar has the pretty little blue berries, it’s a female tree and will not produce pollen.

The ponderosa pine had taken root decades before the Revolutionary War, making a stately stand on this western Sierra Nevada slope for some 300 years, Nate Stephenson figures.

Ciscoe Morris, Seattle Times garden writer, tells readers what is happening to western red cedar trees this season; what to use to fertilize the lawn and how to overwinter a red banana plant.

A giant red cedar has been discovered in North Vancouver and it’s one of the largest left of its kind.

Cedars and junipers are both evergreen coniferous trees that are easily confused and misidentified. Here's how to tell the two apart.

Mountain Cedars Dead and Alive. McGreevy said early Texas pioneers first called ashe juniper trees “cedar” because of its similarities to Eastern red cedar, but neither tree is truly a cedar tree.

California’s drought of 2012-2016 killed millions of trees in the Sierra Nevada — mostly by way of a bark beetle epidemic — leaving a forest canopy full of dry needles. A study published from the ...

Dead yellow cedar could be a viable timber product, study says As more trees die, study says harvesting them could be a way to both manage the forest and make money by Peter Segall Monday, January ...

What mass die-off of an iconic tree says about changing climate A new book reports from the frontlines of a world in transition, and explores our ability to cope.

When wildfire tore through giant sequoia groves in the Sierra Nevada last year, researchers estimated hundreds of the towering trees — maybe 1,000 — were killed. Now, almost nine months later ...

TROY – Near the lowest point in Montana, some of the largest and oldest trees in the state stretch toward the clouds. South of Troy off Montana Highway 56, a grove of western red cedars lives ...