Leaves: Deciduous; oppositely arranged; palmately compound leaves; 5 obovate leaflets with lobed, serrate margins. Twigs and buds: Glabrous; stout; reddish-brown; have prominent horse-shoe-shaped leaf ...

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) - Jim White and Marcie Carter peer into the cloudy water of a fresh mud bog. The scar is just off the Hoover Point Road on Craig Mountain and on land owned by the Nez Perce Tribe.

“The middle weeks of October should be the peak for colors in the upper mountains, followed by the foothills and piedmont ...

Every autumn we revel in the beauty of the fall colors. The mixture of red, purple, orange and yellow is the result of chemical processes that take place in the tree as the seasons change from summer ...

This paper proposes a rapid and non-destructive technique to age Rhizophora seedlings in the field, using the sequence of leaf nodes along main stems. Based on three- to four-year-old R. mangle ...

This month we have a guest column by Stephanie Mirocha, an artist and nature blogger who lives in Aitkin. Stephanie also leads tree treks in St. Paul’s Como Park. Answer: For me, identifying trees ...