KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Alcoa Highway, just five miles south of the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural Campus, is the East Tennessee Research Education Center-Plant Sciences Unit, a 212-acre field ...

Sitting under the wide canopy of a tree can cool you off on a hot summer day and even lower home-energy costs. If your landscape is treeless, the sooner a new tree grows a shady canopy, the better. A ...

Trees like the American chestnut and the American elm have suffered well-known population collapses due to the introduction of nonnative fungal pathogens. Less well known is the decimation of the ...

Larry Severeid has switched patients, from human beings to trees. The retired doctor purchased 147 acres near Rockland, where he has tenaciously worked to cultivate species important to wildlife, ...

Q: What happened to all the butternuts? I remember as a child that these trees were very common and my parents always harvested the nuts. Now, they are so scarce, and without the nuts, I am not sure ...

Islanders are being urged to take precautions to prevent the spread of a tree fungus that has now been detected in three areas of P.E.I. Butternut canker is a fast-spreading disease that attacks ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Alcoa Highway, just five miles south of the University of Tennessee's Agricultural Campus, is the East Tennessee Research Education Center-Plant Sciences Unit, a 212-acre field ...