In fantasy worlds, trees like the Lord of the Rings’ Ents are agile and mobile. In the real world, they’re slow.

I’ve been convinced plastic is taking over the world ever since a plastic grocery bag got tangled high in my cottonwood tree ...

“Like a lot of things, it’s a little bit more complicated than you might think,” he says.

Students and alumni at UVA Sawmilling are transforming 35 tons of white oak and cedar into benches, raised beds and more.

Cottonwood trees are dropping their seeds all over southeast Michigan, collecting on sidewalks, playgrounds, and, unfortunately, air conditioning units.

According to Kathleen Cain, author of “The Cottonwood Tree: An American Champion,” a single Eastern cottonwood can produce as many as 30 million seeds in one season.

That city governments would not just name streets after trees, but plant and care for them, was an idea born in the middle of the 20th century. In Palm Springs, councilwoman and hotelier Ruth ...

Eagle chicks in a nest in a cottonwood tree. Their finer twigs high up in the canopy can hold a pendant Baltimore oriole nest, and old hollow branches host cavities used by red-bellied woodpeckers.

The class will use images and live samples to help participants quickly identify Idaho's most common native trees, such as ponderosa pine, western larch, Douglas fir black cottonwood and more.

The eastern cottonwood sprawled, even more hulking alone in a grassy basin, as I walked over a hill from the parking area. I vividly remember encountering my first state champion tree in 2018.

Eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides), one of the largest eastern hardwoods, is short-lived but the fastest-growing commercial forest species in North America. It grows best on moist well-drained ...

In anticipation of removing the trees, in 2018, the Chatfield Reservoir Mitigation Co. started planting cottonwood and willow stakes and other shrubs in other areas of the park.