The city’s new rules quadruple the fines for unauthorized removal of a protected tree such as a black jack oak or post oak. Those trees are a key part of the Cross Timbers ecological region, which ...

Members added special protections for certain native oak trees and raised the fines for developers who violate forestry rules ...

As hurricane recovery continues in western North Carolina, the push to salvage dead trees is in a race against time as ...

Detectives in the Pacific Northwest are using new forensics technology to track down timber poachers and save old-growth ...

Joel and Sarah Bond had filed for a removal permit back in January 2022, but Portland’s Bureau of Urban Forestry denied the ...

A Portland, Oregon family was stunned when a 150-foot Douglas fir tree crashed into their home during the January 2024 ...

The state’s Maine Spruce Budworm Task Force has outlined steps forest owners can take in at-risk areas to minimize damage, ...

I had gone into the forest to collect myself. For a sense of timelessness, amid trees here long before I got here, that would ...

Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes, in an effort to learn more about our forests, overcame her fear and climbed a 200-foot ...

Portland General Electric’s Harborton Reliability Project has been approved by city leaders, but is being protested by groups who argue it will impact nearly five acres, remove 397 trees, ...

There are many other old-growth forests across the continent. Each of these forests has a unique ecology, but all are under ...

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the absurdly long pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these ...