She wasn’t hiking for fun. She was looking ... matter most to the American landscape, they tend to agree that keystone tree species are essential to functioning forests. Elm trees thrive in the ...

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American ...

Beavers are herbivores and mostly feed on the inner bark of many types of trees ... North Carolina, according to the N.C. Wildlife Commission. There are seven recognized subspecies of the American ...

Rows of nostalgic, low-slung motor lodges rest on the aprons of towering mountains. A population just double that of the LSU ...

Archeologists studying a forested area in northern Michigan say they've uncovered what is likely the largest intact remains of an ancient Native American ... but before the trees had put out ...

Blowing Rock, North Carolina stands as the antidote to modern chaos – a mountain sanctuary where the air is fresher, the pace ...

Tucked into the western edge of North Carolina where the Blue Ridge Mountains create a natural fortress of tranquility, Brevard has mastered the art of being somewhere rather than just somewhere to ...

Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). These majestic ...

More information: Kun Xu et al, How many trees are there in the North American boreal forest?, Ecography (2025). DOI: 10.1002/ecog.07677 ...

Their surfaces are smooth and paper-like. In North America, all beech trees have green leaves. The American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is found in the eastern United States and in southeast Canada.

Identification of the Common North American Spruce Trees Spruces are large trees and can be distinguished by their whorled branches where needles radiate equally in all directions around the ...