For months, foresters and researchers have been investigating reports of ailing pine trees in Arkansas. New diagnostic lab results help tell part of the story, but researchers are continuing to ...

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Witch's brooms are compact, rounded collections of short needles and small cones. They can sometimes make up the entire leafy crown of a tree. Staff at North Carolina State University are asking for ...

As the timber industry grapples with the fallout of several major mill closures, a critical meeting is set to provide vital ...

Tiny clumps of sticky pine sap poke from between the coarse bark on a loblolly pine towering more than 100 feet above the Wakulla State Forest. A few steps more through the woods and another pine is ...

One of Garland County's oldest and tallest residents has fallen. She stood for more than 120 years in a small copse of trees in the Indiandale neighborhood of Hot Springs. She fell with a booming ...

Answer: This is the question I asked last week while working in the Sandhills around Candor, N.C. Our objective was to remove all loblolly pines that were shading the longleaf pines. This forest is ...