For a Yankee in the South, everything about the environment scares you off. Heat. Humidity. Flying termite season (seriously, it’s a thing). But this cold-and-snow-loving Northerner braved the bugs ...

It’s less than a half-inch long but it can fell a giant oak tree in no time. The goldspotted oak borer, GSOB or Agrilus auroguttatus, is a 0.4-inch bullet-shaped beetle with six golden spots on its ...

ESCONDIDO, Calif. — An Escondido man needs your help to plant twenty thousand oak trees. In this Zevely Zone, I follow up on a dream that continues to grow. With the passing of President Jimmy Carter ...

When the summer heat hits, we Southerners remember to appreciate our iconic spread of green trees that provide a shady rest on a humid afternoon. Finding a sheltered spot under a giant tree is a ...

An Inland Empire city has approved a development project 450 feet away from the third oldest known living organism in the world — a sprawling, shrub-like oak tree that is more than 13,000 years old.

Readers of this column aren't surprised to see me writing about trees, since I often praise their planting and fuss at those who would indiscriminately cut them down. But this time I am going to stop ...

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Sudden oak death, a tree disease caused by a fungal-like pathogen, can lead to bleeding cankers, leaf blight and rapid dieoff in a number of plant and tree species. The disease was first detected in ...