Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The silver maple tree (Acer saccharinum) is one of the most common trees in North America. It generally grows 50 to 80 feet tall, ...

The city's cemetery resources board approved a silver maple tree at Longview Cemetery despite a little hesitation. Dave Grellner, the city's environmental health manager, told the board Thursday ...

STOP BY TODAY TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK. EVERY TIME WE DO COME INTO THE DRIVEWAY, WE LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND GO, WOW, IT’S A BREATHTAKING SIGHT IN THE FRONT YARD OF THIS HOME ALONG ROCK SPRINGS ROAD, A ...

Seeds, samaras, helicopters: Whatever you call maple seeds, there is a bumper crop this spring in Iowa. Iowa’s silver maples and silver maple hybrids produced a surplus of seeds this year, likely as a ...

Now that we have passed the vernal equinox, sunlight is about 12 1/2 hours each day (sunrise 7 a.m., sunset nearly 7:30 p.m.) ...

Pauline Bailey, standing at right, watches as her family plants a silver maple tree in memory of Bailey’s daughter, Phylicia Thomas, who went missing in February 2004, presumed to be a victim of a ...