Tourists are discovering sky-high beauty with recreational tree climbing. BLUE RIVER, Ore., Oct. 23, 2008— -- In the treetops of Oregon's ancient forest, 200 feet in the air, Rob Miron feels ...

Editor’s note: This is an edited excerpt from Lynda V. Mapes’ book, “The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests” ($29.95 hardcover), which will be published April 22 by the University ...

WALLA WALLA — The man in a Stanford University sweatshirt looked slightly alarmed as Robert Van Pelt approached him on a shady sidewalk in late May. Van Pelt, a leading big-tree authority, excitedly ...

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 ...

Around 20 arborists and big-tree-enthusiasts met Friday morning in the historic Senate Chamber at the Old Capitol Museum for a seminar given by Mark Rouw, a longtime volunteer for the Iowa Department ...