Couple’s photo exhibit looks at seasonal and other changes at Blue Sky reserve

Blue Sky Ecological Reserve is a 700-acre canyon with miles of hiking trails. Open daily from sunrise to sunset, the reserve ...
Islands on MSN

This Hidden Florida Beach Is A Photographer's Dream With Its Driftwood Views And Coastal Beauty

The driftwood on this Florida beach just outside Jacksonville resembles driftwood skeletons, making for a day on the sand ...
Los Angeles Times

Buckeye Trees Affected by Sudden Oak Death

A tree disease known as sudden oak death has found a new victim. The fungus called phytophthora has killed tens of thousands of coastal oak trees from Sonoma to Big Sur. Now, the microbe is invading ...
Napa Valley Register

Bill Pramuk, Trees and People in Napa Valley: Common oak pest often escapes notice

Columnist Bill Pramuk explains that there is a certain insect pest of coastal live oaks that almost always goes unseen, except for its signs on infested trees.
Biloxi Sun Herald

An ‘MRI’ for trees is saving live oaks on the Mississippi Coast. Here’s how it works.

Before a developer starts construction on a new project in downtown Ocean Springs, he ordered root scans of two century-old oak trees on the property to show him where to build. “We plan to build ...
KTVU

New strains of sudden oak death threaten Bay Area trees

MARIN COUNTY, Calif. - The rainy season brings life-giving water to California but often enacts a penalty in the form of floods, mudslides and falling trees. Now, a new danger has come to light from ...
Houston Chronicle

Why you should do more than tie a yellow ribbon around that old oak tree

Houston’s landscape may look browner than usual after this week’s frigid spell, but where the environment is healthy, there is no such thing as the ‘dead’ of winter. Hundreds of species of creatures ...