When we think about trees, we often imagine them growing from the soil, but did you know that less than 10% of a tree's weight comes from the soil? The rest of the tree’s bulk comes from somewhere ...

Eastern Oregon's Malheur National Forest boasts some of the state's oldest trees, including pine and larch that live more ...

In fantasy worlds, trees like the Lord of the Rings’ Ents are agile and mobile. In the real world, they’re slow.

When they moved to a little patch of prairie northwest of Vermillion in 1982, they started what would be a long, laborious ...

Dendrometry refers to the study of the geometrical dimensions of a tree as an individual entity. This paper presents a dendrometric feature estimation pipeline to calculate the tree height, diameter ...

Once properly diluted, Thiabendazole is injected directly into the vascular system of trees. The injection sites must be placed on the sides of the root flare, not the ridge of the root flare or the ...

That familiar phrase, "leaves of three, let it be," is a homeowner's warning, often whispered with a shiver. Poison ivy ( ...

Certain trees, like figs, crape myrtles, calamondins, ginkgos, and Japanese maples, can thrive when planted in pots rather ...

You can remove poison oak from your yard by hand or with an herbicide. No matter which method you choose, wear protective ...

Learn how trees use massive amounts of water through the process of transpiration for the benefit of themselves and the Earth.

In this paper, a coherent framework for estimating the density and the distribution of roots using ground penetrating radar is presented. The proposed methodology is a multi-stage data processing ...

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