The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Since 2016, a dedicated group of nature enthusiasts and I have worked to restore and protect monarchs ...

Many people like to have some trees in their landscape. Our property has both white and pin oaks (a member of the red oak group). I recently saw an oak gall on a small pin oak. This is created when a ...

My grandfather, Theodore Otto Herman Hill, or “Thunderhead” as he was more appropriately known, was a hunter, a taxidermist and a Teddy Roosevelt conservationist. He was the frontiersman type. He ...

WEST NEWBURY — Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson wrote that the air emanating from old trees can renew a weary spirit. If this is true, then some uplifting breezes must be wafting along Main ...

Fall is an ideal time to consider planting an oak tree. The mighty oak, America’s National Tree, is visually appealing, with this wide leafy crown and broadly spreading limbs. Yet, it is more than a ...

HAMPTON, Va. — Most locals don’t know exactly how long it’s been here. They say at least 300 years. It was around before any of the buildings that stand today in this city of 134,000 on the Chesapeake ...

A heritage oak fell in Anneke and Ray Dempsey’s Palo Alto yard during the March 14, 2023 storm. Courtesy Anneke and Ray Dempsey. Anneke Dempsey was concerned about the giant oak in her backyard for ...