PATAGONIA - What was long the nation's biggest cottonwood tree is dead, split into two slabs, its gargantuan trunk sprawling askew. Its base is hollow, its bark, rotting. Most of its leaves are ...

"Native plants can be a valuable part of a sustainable garden, especially when chosen and placed carefully. But they aren't always the best fit for every yard," writes this Cowlitz ...

Every year the eastern cottonwood trees in Michigan release their fluffy seeds. The end of June likely marks the end of this process. Here's what to know.

A beetle pest is endangering pine trees in Pierce County, including an outbreak at Chambers Creek Regional Park. Learn how officials are addressing the threat.

Removing tree bark is a key preliminary step in the lumber process. It's removed by rolling the log between two sets of rotating blades. The process also creates a more uniform rounded log shape.

Pibel Lake Recreation Area is home to the Lower Loup Natural Resource District, geese and as of February 2025, the largest known cottonwood tree in Wheeler County.

An eagle nest in a cottonwood tree on the Cold River. Have you ever walked or paddled along a riverbank, and noticed a towering tree with deeply-furrowed gray bark and huge bright green leaves ...

Bark beetle-infested spruce trees begin to dry out already before any visible signs of tree mortality appear, a recent study shows.

The center of a tree or shrub stem (from roots to trunk, branches, and twigs) is woody, composed of xylem cells that conduct water from the roots to the upper parts of the tree. That woody section ...

Reinhard Stettler discovered a cottonwood hybrid grew at incredible rates, nearly 10 feet a year, leading to a forest product boom in the Northwest.

Torin Porter, a certified arborist with Bartlett Tree Experts, works on a 123-foot Eastern cottonwood, a state champion tree in Williamsburg. James W. Robinson/freelance ...