For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the ...

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I went to the mountains for the views, but I saw the most when there was no view. As a volunteer U.S. Forest Service lookout, I was excited about another season in the fire towers. On May 1, the ...

Everyone’s heard about the wonders of California’s coastal redwood trees. They can live for hundreds, even one or two thousand years, all while enduring West Coast fires, storms and pests. But there’s ...