Students at Hampton Academy and Marston School tapped trees, collected sap, and made maple syrup themselves last winter.

Do you know all the trees in your yard? As leaves emerge from buds very soon, I’d challenge you to identify your trees this year. Proper identification of trees is important so we can select the best ...

Observing and identifying trees is a type of play that benefits kids in multiple ways. For starters, research has found that simply being around trees improves cognitive development and lowers the ...

MIDDLETOWN — We are lucky to have so many great forested trails in and around Middletown, and though they are mainly deciduous trees that senesce, or lose their leaves annually, there are still lots ...

Trees can be identified in winter by observing their needles, bark, branching patterns, and buds. Distinctive bark, such as the smooth gray bark of a beech or the peeling white bark of a paper birch, ...

Downs Park in Pasadena hosts a maple syrup demonstration Sunday showing guests to process of making maple syrup from identifying the trees to the finished product. Lyla Ferris, 7, is dressed as a ...

Mar. 9—EAU CLAIRE — Lucas Barth didn't have to look far to find inspiration for a sweet project to offer North High School special education students. The assistant principal at North merely had to ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

Most of us enjoying knowing the names of our acquaintances - including trees. It's tougher to identify trees in winter because most have no leaves, which is how we generally recognize trees. But by ...