The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

The Oklahoma Conservation Commission (OCC) has launched their Invasive Woody Species Cost-Share Program, which is set to ...

A male prairie warbler sings from a branch of an Eastern red-cedar tree in Callaway County. Eastern red-cedar trees have historically provided Christmas trees and other wood products, from pencils to ...

An over-population of Eastern red cedar trees is like a cancer to the rangeland—aggressive, widespread and time-consuming to eradicate. Landowners in the High Plains have fought these encroaching ...

I’ve been able to travel to Crete, Fullerton and Greeley in the past two weeks. As I drive by pastures, it is obvious that we need to think about managing the eastern red cedar trees. The small farm ...

One species of tree native to Oklahoma has caused many problems for homeowners. This tree has a knack for bursting into flames. Oklahoma Forester Riley Coy is all too familiar with this tremendous ...

We asked our friends at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden to spotlight something fascinating from the ground up. Lynn Jackson Kirk tells us about a tree so common and versatile that we might take it for ...

Eastern Red Cedar trees cost the state economy half a billion dollars per year according to the Oklahoma Conservation Commission. The tree also poses a fire hazard. People might not notice the eastern ...

Mother Nature surely has a way of filling up wide open spaces. An observation of what’s growing along fencerows, along highways, and open fields that are not regularly mowed, will most likely reveal ...

The waxy needles of Eastern red cedar help make it drought tolerant, but the invasive species exacerbates drought conditions. Soil water content is lower where red cedar trees have encroached, as the ...

Back when Kelly Roberts was a kid during the 1970s, her family would scout their northeastern Oklahoma pasture every year, looking for the perfect eastern redcedar for their Christmas tree. “I ...

If you’ve spent any time on I-81 or -64 in recent months traveling for the holidays, and if you’ve got an interest in wild things and landscapes that outweighs your interest in tractor trailers, cars, ...