The massive oak stood more than 80 feet high and was 25 feet wide at its base. It had been kept alive by the descendants of ...

Have you ever noticed a tree with branches that are cut back to its trunk and wondered what it means? Here's what's behind ...

Rate of growth Tree speed is classified as follows: Fast-growing: 25 inches or more of branch growth each year. Examples are poplars (includes cottonwood), elm, ash and silver maple.

That is why if you cut the tree down, or it burns down, you will see new growth very quickly, perhaps within 10 days after a fire. These trees really know how to come back!

They surveyed all the trees and shrubs in 24 parts of old growth forests (more than 150 years old) at the Nature Center. They tested the effects of honeysuckle and drought on maple and oak seedlings.

Roots of some oak, maple, beech, hickory, tulip and other trees began spreading in local soil before Erie was even incorporated as a city in 1851. Their branches shaded mourners at funerals for ...

A deadly new oak-tree disease can be prevented by pruning them in the dormant season (if needed) instead of spring or summer.

Blood stains the ground under a fallen live oak tree branch that fell on a 16-year-old boy in Jackson Square in New Orleans on Friday, July 7, 2023. STAFF PHOTO BY CHRIS GRANGER; ...