The Purdue Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center has signed a commercial partnership agreement with Tree Pro to distribute select hardwood seedlings from its breeding program beginning in ...

While a fall application of mulch can be beneficial to plants, we have seen a growing trend of piling mulch much deeper than ...

The Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center (HTIRC) was conceived in 1998 to address a perceived void in hardwood tree improvement research in the Central Hardwood Forest Region (CHFR) and ...

SIMON: Good times for a walk in the woods to watch the trees turn colors. But you might also notice something beneath your feet. (SOUNDBITE OF ACORNS CRUNCHING) SIMON: Hundreds of acorns cracking and ...

Here are four questions to ask your supplier before buying your next load of hardwood lumber. 1. What region is the lumber from? Hardwood trees grow all across North America. The majority of the ...

Hardwood trees such as birch, maple or oak are in danger because of a little bug—the spongy moth—native to parts in Europe, but has been in the U.S. for over 100 years. The spongy moth is making its ...

One hundred hardwood trees will be planted between 9 a.m. and noon April 1 throughout Terre Haute by 52 volunteers and about 100 fraternity and sorority members from Rose-Hulman Institute of ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In 2012, when the spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) arrived in the U.S. from its home in China, scientists, land managers, and growers were understandably concerned that ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. In trees, heart rot is caused by a fungal disease that causes the center of ...