As far as the climate (and, truthfully, much else) is concerned, 2023 has felt like one nasty jack-in-the-box moment after another; there have been a record number of billion-dollar natural disasters ...

It didn’t get much notice, but President Donald Trump has turbocharged logging on public lands in ways that are likely to increase dangerous wildfire. Inside the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that became ...

A federal judge has thrown out an environmental lawsuit that claimed a 40,000-acre forest project in Eastern Oregon unlawfully authorized the harvest of large trees. In 2020, the U.S. Forest Service ...

A hundred years ago, Maryland's first state forester challenged residents to find the state's biggest tree. Now the contest is back. Scott Detrow speaks with Joli McCathran of the Big Tree Program.

THINGS. OF COURSE, THE THEME PARKS ARE SPORTS TEAMS. BUT NOW ADD TO THAT LIST A PARTICULAR TREE. THAT’S RIGHT, A TREE. IT’S A LIVE OAK THAT IS 400 YEARS OLD. AND HIS WESH 2’S MICHELLE MEREDITH REPORTS ...

Bennett, a retired special education teacher, says the Big Tree Project measures about 200 new trees each year. Most nominations come from private landowners who think their tree might have the ...

Around 20 arborists and big-tree-enthusiasts met Friday morning in the historic Senate Chamber at the Old Capitol Museum for a seminar given by Mark Rouw, a longtime volunteer for the Iowa Department ...