The Cool Down

Officials launch major project that could save lives in wildfires: 'A matter of life and death'

The city of Poway, California, has begun removing an estimated 2,500 dead or dying trees along major evacuation routes to ...
KING5

Hundreds of thousands of Washington state's trees are dead or dying - what's killing them?

SEATTLE — Trees upon towering trees make up what Washingtonians know to be one of the most stunning landscapes in the nation. In Shoreline, a towering fir tree was cut down. While beautiful at one ...
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VLog Asian Greens Missing Chickens Dying Avocado Tree

This vlog covers the vegetable garden, poultry pen, orchard, and a diy job on our front outdoor staircase. The the patch I'm planting more Asian Greens, down the back one of our hens has gone missing, ...
The Telegraph

Jersey County Courthouse to remove six dying trees

JERSEYVILLE — A total of six trees are in the process of being removed from the Jersey County Courthouse lot. Jersey County Sheriff Nicholas Manns, who oversees the courthouse lot, posted on the ...
WSHU news

Confusion at Joshua Tree National Park and others as government shutdown continues

A wildfire has been burning inside Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. The fire is mostly contained at this point, but during the ongoing government shutdown, the park staff that’s still ...
WFAE

Confusion at Joshua Tree National Park and others as government shutdown continues

A wildfire burning inside Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California is nearly contained more than a week after it started. But a group that helps support the park says the ongoing government ...
The Washington Post

Climate change is coming for D.C.’s trees, and the city won’t look the same

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The old tree had survived plenty. Branches tangled in power lines. Dogs ...
SFGate

Fire forces evacuation of Joshua Tree National Park campground, buildings

On Sunday morning, a fire broke out just south of the Black Rock Campground in Joshua Tree National Park, forcing an evacuation of the campground and closures of the Black Rock Visitor Center and ...
Star-Gazette

Overrun by deer, New York forest managers turn to ‘slash walls’. Inside a growing practice

To protect new tree growth from deer, Moss Bank Park in Bath, NY built "slash walls" using felled hemlock trees. Slash walls are massive barriers of logs and branches that prevent deer from eating ...
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Germany’s Harz National Park Is Dying — Can Nature Save It

"Dive into Germany’s Harz National Park—one of just 16 national parks in the country—as it battles a massive bark beetle outbreak. Decades of spruce monocultures (planted to fuel centuries of mining) ...
New Haven Register

A Hamden artist turned a dying tree into a sculpture at Guilford's Dudley Farm Museum

GUILFORD — The 150-year-old maple tree at the Dudley Farm Museum had a long life. Little ones played on a rope swing hung from its branches and sap was tapped during maple sugaring season. But members ...