Suzanne Simard has spent more time hiding from grizzly bears than most people, and she did it for science. Working in Canada in the 1990s, Simard set out to answer a question: Why do Douglas firs need ...

Even though I am sure I have seen these all my life, I don’t remember ever noticing the actual seeds of birch trees until relatively recently. This is one of those things that is so easy to overlook, ...

First-grade students on their winter forest field trip at Crossroads at Big Creek found several birch trees, each riddled with woodpecker holes and clearly dead. One of the children asked, “How come ...