The beautiful Bohemian waxwing is a winter visitor to the Maritimes, wandering southeast from its summer breeding range in ...

From the moment I step into a forest I always feel a deep and innate truth: nature heals. It is not merely a place to visit ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

Mid-winter "false springs" — warm, spring-like days — also threaten insect populations as they can trick insects into emerging from hibernation or hatching early. When freezing temperatures return, ...

While they prefer nuts from hardwood trees, they’ll also eat the cones and seedlings from ponderosa pines and other coniferous trees ... for healthy growth during their first few months of life. The ...

Even some of the bigger lakes are showing the first signs of spring. A trip down to the shore reveals a narrow band of open ...

Forests, particularly those dense with conifers, release phytoncides ... resilience through the endurance of ancient trees, and renewal through the constant cycle of life and decay.

More than half a million acres in southwest Montana have been impacted by conifer expansion. It used to be that fires would ...

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