The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Since 2016, a dedicated group of nature enthusiasts and I have worked to restore and protect monarchs ...

Many people like to have some trees in their landscape. Our property has both white and pin oaks (a member of the red oak group). I recently saw an oak gall on a small pin oak. This is created when a ...

Oak trees have been with us from the very beginning of time. When God created the oak tree and the acorn, whichever came first, we were blessed with one of the sturdiest and useful plants for our ...

“Sing for the Oak Tree, the Monarch of the Wood.” These words were written by English poet Mary Botham Howitt, who died in 1888. She may be best known for her amusing creation, “The Spider and the Fly ...

A heritage oak fell in Anneke and Ray Dempsey’s Palo Alto yard during the March 14, 2023 storm. Courtesy Anneke and Ray Dempsey. Anneke Dempsey was concerned about the giant oak in her backyard for ...

The Linden Oak, a tree that has likely been around since at least George Washington’s birth in 1732, was cut down Tuesday by a Montgomery County, Maryland, forestry crew. The chainsaws and wood ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Anyone who’s visited Ann Arbor’s West Park in the last year or so and looked up may have noticed more branches on some of Tree Town’s majestic oaks going bare. The bur oaks serve as a ...

The white oak can grow into a massive tree by Midwestern standards. It can live to more than 500 years old and commonly grows to more than 80 feet tall. The wood of the white oak is hard and ...