UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

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Dozens of bird eggs and chicks were rescued from nests in a single wind-damaged eucalyptus tree that was dangerously close to collapsing in a California ... make headway in state legislatures ...

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Doug Tallamy, PhD, professor of agriculture at the University of Delaware and founder of Homegrown National Park Native ...

We're all familiar with apples and pears, but there are many other fruit trees that produce edible fruit. Perhaps not as ...

Add an eastern redbud tree to your yard for a stunning springtime show! Here's how to care for this small ornamental native tree.

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