Pensacola will soon know the location, size and health status of every tree on city property. Over the next seven weeks, crews from the consulting firm Geosyntec will be in city parks and along city ...

Leetsdale officials understand it takes more than having the streets paved, garbage picked up and grass cut to take care of a borough environment. Some of the tallest things in town also need to be ...

The agency maintains a database that includes various characteristics of some 19 million trees over some 350,000-plus plots of land The U.S. Forest Inventory and Analysis program is essentially the ...

City planners tend to stick to tree species they know and love, say researchers German researchers have compiled a 400-species database, external to encourage people to plant the "right tree in the ...

This southern magnolia in Sussex County is a national co-champion. Photo by Alexandra Cassell. The formula for measuring a champion tree is deceptively simple: add the trunk circumference (in inches) ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - For those who've seen the mighty oaks towering in some of Ann Arbor's parks, perhaps it's no surprise they rank as the biggest of their kind in the city. A bur oak in West Park with a ...

Researchers have shown that it's possible to link your identity to supposedly secret genetic information about your predisposition to diseases, merely by analyzing family-tree databases and other ...

The search is on for the most majestic trees in Michigan (and maybe the country) in the Big Tree Hunt. ReLeaf Michigan seeks your assistance in identifying the state's largest trees, with the biggest ...

Forests are disappearing. Maps show shrinking woodlands all over the world. Even trees coveted for their wood that are protected from logging are chopped down. Worried about such deforestation, ...