The birch trees in this photo appear to have been infested with bronze birch borer, as indicated by the dead upper branches where larvae have disrupted the flow of water and nutrients.

Mid-winter is my favorite time to harvest birch for sweet-flavored food and warming beverages. Birch trees are easy to identify in winter thanks to their distinctive bark. The bark is an eye-catching ...

FAIRBANKS — It’s not always easy to string the lights on a Christmas tree. Especially when the tree is taller than a house and has more branches than a bank. This particular tree-lighting exercise ...

They don’t snore, but might creak during their slumbers. For the first time, trees have been shown to undergo physical changes at night that can be likened to sleep, or at least to day-night cycles ...

How to assess your trees' health after a long winter ...