What they’re learning is beginning to lay bare the complex interactions playing out inside expired trees. “Just because it’s ...

Walk into any woods in New England (or the world) and you are bound to find standing dead trees. Depending upon where you live and how you view natural ecosystems these can be viewed either as ...

The Los Padres National Forest and the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District announced a series of planned ...

However, the real danger is in the thousands of still standing but dead ash trees that line the entire rail tail. These ash trees were killed a few years ago by the invasion of the emerald ash borer.

The top of the tree had been cut off long ago. “It was an older tree. It was super dead, but enough that if it had landed on us, we would’ve been dead,” Ben Kerstein said. The tree is gone now.