Trees' role in agriculture tend to be viewed as limited to the lumber industry or highly organized orchards to grow fruits, but some farmers are looking to the forest floor to get more people into ...

Did you know that it takes, on average, about 180 years to form 1 cubic centimeter of soil? That is 2.3 times the life expectancy for Americans – all to produce a small quantity of soil that fits in a ...

I had the great fortune to take a Landscaping Design class a few years back from Dr. Steve George through the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension program. It might have been the most inspiring class I've ...

The wood that remains after a tree harvesting operation is often burned to reduce the hazard of fire or is removed for bioenergy production. But another option should be considered—leaving the wood ...

A new study suggests that non-native worms are eating up the forest floor, causing sugar maples to die back and perhaps harming other forest dwellers. The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, and ...

Following a soft opening last June, Modus Studio’s hovering Tree House has been captured amid its fully-installed landscape in the firm’s native Arkansas. Tree House sits above the Garvan Woodland ...

Nalini Nadkarni ascending into the forest canopy in her long-term study site, Monteverde, Costa Rica. Credit: Sybil Gotsch. Forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni pioneered the exploration of tree ...

Walk along the beach after a winter storm and you’ll see a shore littered with wracks of giant kelp, some 30 to 40 feet long — evidence of the storm’s impact on coastal kelp forests. Less apparent to ...

Justin Higginbottom / JPR In dense forests off I-5 in Josephine County, Oregon, up a few miles of winding dirt roads, a handful of tents, a hammock and an acoustic guitar mark the camp of those ...

Reversing course on his threat to cut the state’s federal funding if Californians don’t solve their forest-fire problem, President Donald Trump now says he’ll solve it with them. “We go through this ...

Did you know that it takes, on average, about 180 years to form 1 cubic centimeter of soil? That is 2.3 times the life expectancy for Americans – all to produce a small quantity of soil that fits in a ...