Of the thousands of native plants and trees that most Americans and nearly all Minnesotans can plant in their yards, one species towers above the rest. To do the most good for the most things, and ...

Thirty years ago, I got some small white oak seedlings, then planted them in my yard. Now I have five great big oak trees. And thank goodness, as oak trees serve as the larval food source for almost a ...

In 1872, a Nebraska newspaper editor and tree lover named J. Sterling Morton proposed dedicating a day to planting trees in his home state. The idea, shall we say, took root. Historic Garden Week ...

On a small scale, oaks can be saved by manual means — by cutting down their competitors, killing rival trees with herbicides and protecting oak seedlings in the forest with cages to keep deer ...

Sarah Cooper, right, tosses a tub of shumard oak tree seedlings onto a trailer in March 2025 at George O. White State Forest Nursery, in Licking, Missouri. The tractor takes the seedlings to a ...

Forty years ago, a small program was launched to send local fourth graders home with free seedlings in celebration of Arbor Day. It began with a few hundred seedlings given away to a few Coeur d'Alene ...