Can you imagine San Diego without palm trees? I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and have associated palms with Southern California since I visited my cousins in Pasadena during the 1960s. When I ...

As I move into the later years of my career, I get time to reflect on what worked and what didn’t work in the world of urban forestry. When I think about individual tree species, a few come to mind.

Researcher Lucy Rose collects throughfall samples under an ash tree at Dayton’s Bluff Park in St. Paul. (Photo by Andrew Hazzard / Sahan Journal) This is your first of three free stories this month.

Purdue urban forester Lindsey Purcell shares tips for tree pruning for the landscape, including knowing why you are pruning, how to prune and how to help the tree heal properly. Please visit the Tree ...

Many of the landscape trees adorning urban cityscapes in Southern California are at or close to the end of their lifespans. While several species of oak, maple, crape myrtle, ficus, magnolia and other ...

Friday was National Arbor Day. If it caught you off guard, or you didn’t remember, don’t worry. There is never a bad time to appreciate the role that urban trees play in helping to make Jacksonville a ...

In Louisiana, we celebrate Arbor Day each year on the third Friday in January. This date is set aside as a time to celebrate trees by planting them. I think it is also appropriate to appreciate the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X EMERGE and URI workers planting serviceberry trees on Sherman Avenue. Caroline Scanlan, who ...

If you’ve ever felt the impulse to hug a tree, your kinship is not unfounded. In the series “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,” the astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson proclaimed that trees are our distant ...

Changes in transit design that aim to make roads and car traffic safer are one critical component of the complete streets movements underway across North America. Vehicle usage is responsible for ...