In the humid, storm-prone South (like Mississippi), decay visibly dead pine trees will fall relatively quickly. Fungal rot and insects weaken roots and trunk, so a pine may fall within a couple of ...

LAUREL, De – Trap Pond State Park has a lot of history and it is Delaware’s first state park, home to the bald cypress tree. Trap Pond State Park started out as a logging site in the ...

Mark Harmon crouches low next to log number 219: a moss-covered western hemlock tree trunk, five meters long, lying dead on ...

Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 years, and he’s found a complex world few ...

There are benefits to growing this colorful evergreen tree, but the risks may outweigh the rewards. Find out if this plant ...

This video shows how to successfully plant avocado trees in areas containing clay soil. Root rot disease and poor soil drainage is the number 1 reason why avocados fail and die but this method helps ...

They’re nicknamed “mulch volcanoes” – essentially a mound of moisture-retaining mulch that’s piled up around the trunk of a ...

Chances are, when you're catching a football game on TV nowadays, you'll hear some analysis from Kirk Herbstreit. Herbstreit, a former quarterback at Ohio State, began his broadcasting career as an ...

A NSW timber mill has been forced to cut staff because of a lack of logs, despite 50,000 trees being cleared and dumped to make way for transmission lines. The Pentarch Mill at Nowra last week cut 12 ...

The Pentarch Mill at Nowra last week cut 12 jobs, around 40 per cent of its workforce, because it does not have enough timber to keep the mill running at full capacity. But five hours south, a ...