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Steel and concrete would be the classic choices for building a large new laboratory planned at Michigan State University. But experts in the university’s forestry department are asking, “Why not wood?”
New edition of 1926 book throws light on lumberjack life, loves and losses collected by an English professor while mostly hiking from Charlevoix, Michigan, to North Dakota.
Trees’ leafy canopies work like an umbrella over the pavement, keeping rainwater from flowing across the ground and into larger bodies of water.
Scenes from Hearts Content in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest.
As a warming climate transforms forests across the northern Great Lakes, scientists working in the iconic Minnesotan landscape are embracing the change.
Before airplanes and 911 calls became the prominent ways to discover forest fires, forests were monitored from fire lookout towers.
Researchers say tree loss plays a role in street crime.
Highland Copper’s exploratory drilling in the Upper Peninsula has angered many Michiganders.
A proposed expansion of the Indianapolis Crown Hill National Cemetery by the Department of Veterans Affairs survived a legal challenge by the Indiana Forest Alliance and construction preparation is now underway.
The gypsy moth feeds on more than 300 types of trees and shrubs.