I spied the first spring beauty of the year on Feb. 20, the same week a Northern flicker started drumming on our metal chimney, the week of budburst for our red maple sapling and our young red ...

Abrams said the red maple explosion is unprecedented. Oak and hickory trees have been the dominant tree species in the Eastern forests for the past 10,000 years or so.

However, long ago the early pioneers, mesmerized by the beauty of this tree in the fall of the year, brought Red Maple saplings from the woods to plant on the old homestead.

W hether the tree is large or small is in the eye of the beholder. For most of the dozen or so folks scattered around the patch of mulch where the Red Maple sapling is being stuffed into the ...

Built in February 2017, Doughtery used red maple and sweet gum saplings from Duke Forest to build this piece that stands about 40-feet-by- 20-feet wide and 18-feet tall. Find it in the open meadow ...

DuPont Global Business President and leader of "DuPont North" Tim Lacey, left, Midland Mayor Maureen Donker, center right, and DuPont CEO-elect Marc Doyle, right, plant a red maple sapling during ...

We moved into our new house in Elk Grove in 1976. The ash tree in the parkway was a little crooked, so I staked a rope to help it grow straight. It didn’t make much difference. I watched that ...