Chestnut trees began disappearing from eastern deciduous forests in the U.S. almost a century ago due to a nasty fungus. That has contributed to a vastly different eastern forest landscape today.

Prior to the European colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans harvested the wood of redbud trees to construct ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst ... Entire: Magnolia, Dogwood, and Water Oak. Deciduous trees, such as oaks, maples, and elms ...

Forests in which a majority of the trees drop their leaves at the end of the typical growing season are called deciduous forests. These forests are found worldwide and are in temperate or tropical ...

Known as leafy jelly fungus or amber jelly roll (Exidia), it grows on the dead branches of deciduous trees. I find it on the downed branches of a dead oak on the forest floor. Looking more closely ...

Ohio, like most of the Midwest, contains deciduous forests, characterized by trees that lose their leaves at the end of each growing season. Only certain plants and animals are made to thrive in ...