Until a little over a week ago, there was a large and stately maple tree on Buena Vista Avenue near Walnut Street. Unfortunately, whoever planted the maple—sometime in the 1920s or earlier, based on ...

Add repairman to the skills of ants. The super-strength and communicative power of ants are well documented. Ants can lift more than 100 times their body weight and correspond through pheromones and ...

I received an urgent call last week. A tractor had knocked a big chunk of bark off of an oak tree and the owner wanted to know what to do about the wound.This kind of incident is all too common, ...

An urban forester explains the root of the problem.