Tucked away in an unexpected corner of Sandy Springs is the John Ripley Forbes Big Trees Forest Preserve. One can easily miss this 30-acre sanctuary tucked away alongside one of the city’s major ...

If you missed the annual Big Tree Hunt put on by the New Jersey Forest Service this spring, the mammoth specimen you thought might be a contender is worth keeping an eye on. The event challenges New ...

Ever see a really huge tree? Then The Texas Forest Service might want to hear about it. They maintain the Big Tree Registry, which keeps track of the biggest trees in every county in the state. The ...

More than three years after a wildfire devastated Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the massive redwood trees in California’s oldest state park continue to recover with ...

The Maryland Big Tree Program has launched a contest to find the largest tree in state forests. According to an announcement, the Big-Tree Centennial Contest offers prizes totaling $1,500 for ...

SAVOY — Forester Kevin Podowka walked backward on a logging road as he led about 20 people through a small part of a 100-acre section of Savoy Mountain State Forest that is slated for cutting. Even as ...

Big Lonely Doug is a sight to behold—achingly beautiful yet incredibly sad. The thousand-year-old, two-hundred-foot Douglas Fir stands in the midst of a vast clear-cut on the rugged west coast of ...

Maryland is home to some of the largest trees in the nation – and state officials are asking the public to help find them.

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This three-part Mongabay mini-series examines grassroots forest restoration projects carried out within isolated island ecosystems — whether those islands are surrounded by water as on the Big Island ...