trees

You might’ve noticed there’s something strange going on with the spruce trees in your neighborhood.It’s called spruce decline and it’s mostly affecting…

I hope they have more success than I did.I tried moving a four-year-old oak tree in my backyard… and failed. Of course, they’ll be using more than just a…

It might just be a 57-acre stand of trees in Livingston County, but it's been added to a global network with a distinguished name: “The Smithsonian…

Early bursts of autumn color have been seen across Michigan. Are the leaves trying to tell us something?MLive and farmerweather.com meteorologist Mark…

When you bring up your mental image of big post-industrial American cities like Detroit, do you think of blight, decaying buildings, or empty lots?You…

People in Huntington Woods are upset about a new city ordinance aimed at making it harder to cut down trees.The ordinance requires property owners to get…

If you've been wondering why your favorite pine tree has been turning brown as the weather warms up, you can stop wondering and start blaming winter.Bert…

Students in northern Michigan are planting clones of ancient sequoias today.There's a grove of sequoias along the shores of Lake Michigan on the site of a…

The late December ice storm that knocked out power to more than half a million Michigan utility customers also damaged many of the state’s trees.A…

For a beech tree, the end comes in two parts.It starts with the wooly beech scale opening up a wound, then a fungus gets into that wound and can…