One thing I love about living in the age of the internet is that old students can keep in touch much more easily than when I was young-via email or social media. Recently a highlight in this kind of ...

On a mid-July morning in Corvallis’ Willamette Park, Callie Gunderson’s two-year-old son climbed a maple tree. Gunderson said playing in the park is the best way to encourage him to be adventurous.

Thieves seeking valuable maple burls have hit at least half a dozen trees in a Corvallis park, leaving officials searching for answers and police searching for suspects. Since December, the thieves ...

One or more vandals are cutting chunks of sought-after wood from maple trees in Corvallis’ Willamette Park. Officials say the illegal poaching will likely kill the trees. The burls, rounded masses of ...

I’ve had my eye on this maple in my woods for some time. Not because it’s a beautiful timber tree. It’s only about 8 inches in diameter, after all. But it has an interesting burl about 14 feet up the ...

Park volunteers and city staff are on alert after someone sawed valuable pieces off a tree in an Albany park. Sometime in the past week or so, a tree on the Eagle Trail in Takena Landing Park was ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Have you ever noticed an abnormal growth on the trunk of a tree that looked rather tumorous -- all bumpy and wart-like? Examples can be seen on random trees just about anywhere.