Dead trees line the Salt Creek and Platte River near Mahoney State Park in June 2025. Horticulturists with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission were stumped when they started seeing significant ...

The Southern Red Oak (Quercus falcata) in Great Falls spent most of its life — a reported 200+ years — well-lived and protected in the right-of-way along Georgetown Pike. Known as the “summer road,” ...

For a Yankee in the South, everything about the environment scares you off. Heat. Humidity. Flying termite season (seriously, it’s a thing). But this cold-and-snow-loving Northerner braved the bugs ...

Two hurricanes later, UF will begin removing the Norman Hall oak tree that collapsed during Hurricane Helene. The century-old tree, which stood at the center of the Norman Hall courtyard, was a ...

A large bur oak tree at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum was recently hit by lightning. See the damage.