The season of dazzling hillsides ablaze with vivid, colorful, autumnal foliage is all but over. There may be three more weeks before the winter solstice, but already most of our trees are showing ...

“But the tree is not a passive organism; it’s going to start exuding some resin.” That appealing smell of fresh-cut pine is resin, a sap-like defense mechanism that trees release when they are wounded ...

I’ve had a perfect view of the lake’s Fourth of July fireworks and I’ve watched the resident eagle catch fish and then bring it to its favorite perch in the nearby dead pine tree. Countless families ...