When we were kids, every year we traipsed through the woods outside of Johnstown, snow over our knees, trying to land each footstep in my father's boot prints. We were on a very important mission: to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Know all of the different options before you head out to the tree farm. In the meantime, you may want to learn about the different ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Fir needles are typically short and mostly soft with blunt tips. The cones ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eastern hemlock and balsam fir trees laden with snow in North Berwick, Maine. We had our first winter snow storm this past weekend ...

My 2-year-old knows no one of that name. She wanted to see a tree. Throughout the pandemic, the two of us have trekked rain or shine to the green canopy of a solitary neighborhood Douglas fir. There, ...