The first plants to return were species that could survive in nitrogen-poor areas, like Lupin and Red Alder. Those plants created habitat conditions where other species could then return and live.

The first plants to return were species that could survive in nitrogen-poor areas, like Lupin and Red Alder. Those plants created habitat conditions where other species could then return and live.

Red alder and western red cedar, once considered “trash” or uneconomical species, now command premium prices. Innovative wood-fiber packaging may help us reduce dependence on single-use plastics.

Dispatch.com readers voted for Jonathan Alder's Mason Curtis as the regular-season boys lacrosse player of the year.

They inhabit moist, mixed woods in riparian areas—in bogs, along streams, on flood plains—wherever you might find stands of red alder. There’s a simple reason for this. Oysters feed on dead and dying ...

Chicago Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez (33rd) is threatening legal action against fellow Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th), amid a war of words tied to last week's deadly shooting of two Israeli Embassy ...

A Chicago alderwoman is threatening legal action against one of her colleagues, whom she says is falsely linking her and others to the suspected shooter of two Israeli embassy workers last week in ...

A popular chef-driven restaurant and coffee shop is preparing to open its seventh Northeast Florida location in Jacksonville ...