A: As dry as you can get it so that burning it won’t gum up your chimney with flammable creosote. How to tell? One indicator ...

Although hemlock is generally not highly valued as a timber commodity, it has some unique characteristics that have been very ...

Close-up Photographer of the Year is open to all. The annual competition delivers another stunning selection of images from ...

A battle of beetles has won this contest celebrating close-up, macro, and micro photography revealing amazing hidden wonders ...

Even this deep into winter, the trees are one of my favorite parts of our mountains. Stands of towering, majestic aspens, ...

As anyone even casually surveying the Gunnison Valley’s landscapes can tell, it is an area of densely forested lands, and a new study released last month has confirmed how impactful those forests are ...

Nut trees make great additions to your yard - and your kitchen - but which are worth growing, and which should you avoid? Let ...

The smoke you have been seeing on the west side of the valley is a result of responsible landowners thinning trees to create a more healthy forest and reduce the ...

Then too, trees are self-pruning. Wind events such as those we have experienced this winter prune trees: Dead limbs and ...

Birds are always up to something, and these entries captured an array of avians doing everything from impaling prey to ...

Foraging for mushrooms can be scary, so Food & Wine sent literary Brat Pack legend Tama Janowitz to comb the forest floors of McCall, Idaho, with a mushroom foraging expert. She learned how to forage ...

Maybe you have been paying attention to the trees that surround Telluride and the region and have already noticed the growing ...