Fallen leaves make a fine mulch for garden beds and trees and shrubs, but they aren’t the only possibility. “Any kind of organic matter can make a good mulch,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge ...

If you want to grow your garden and do so on a budget, this is the season to take hardwood cuttings and start the propagation ...

“We buy our firewood locally so that we can prevent transport of pests, of insects, of diseases into the state, into new ...

Often trees with decaying wood in their trunks are beginning to lose strength. They can come tumbling down without warning.

The growing trees have absorbed carbon as their food. When the trees are cut, wood — biodegradable, carbon-storing, beautiful ...

They used nails, dowels and glue to combine smaller pieces of wood into big, strong and solid masses that don’t require cutting down large old-growth trees. The climate is changing, and our ...

The Southern red cedar is a wonderful evergreen tree that provides both berries (if it’s a female tree) and cover for birds to nest in.

A recent city project in California has begun to improve air quality and provide greater natural shade when temperatures rise ...

Fueled by the hot weather, fires continue to devastate communities around California. This year more than 7,200 wildfires have burned over 1 million acres. While less than a dozen of the fires have ...

Go beyond the beaches and theme parks to discover the other wonders of Southern California. Find the intersection of ...

We've scoured the globe and come up with, what we think is, the definitive ranking of the world's most beautiful forests.

Trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere when they perform photosynthesis. Does logging in national forests release ...