As spring prepares to give way to summer, Virginia’s agriculture and forestry officials are asking residents to keep an eye ...

A debate continues among scientists over whether tree composition in forests in eastern North America historically ... such as northern hardwood versus oak-pine, but climate cannot explain the ...

North American historically have been influenced more by climate or by cultural burning, which is the intentional and ...

My relationship with barred owls began when I built my little cabin in 2002. That first winter a pair hunted from the ...

If you have kids, from toddler age to pre-teen, then these are our favorite kid-friendly trails in Raleigh that we like to do as a family. Each of these trails we have completed when our daughters ...

Northern hardwood forests, for instance ... Other species, such as eastern hemlock and sugar maple, can conduct photosynthesis at lower light levels in smaller gaps and can often regenerate ...

A hardwood forest of oak, hickory, beech, and tulip trees, as well as groves of spruce, pine, fir, and hemlock are crossed by several small streams and wetlands. A large old field hosts grouse and ...

The wetlands and open water dominate the central portion of the property isolating the eastern side of the property from the ... northern, upland, hardwood forest in a secluded, northeastern Vermont ...

The Pennsylvania legislature designated the eastern hemlock the official state tree on June 22, 1931.This tree thrives in ...