More than 44 million acres of pine trees there, an area the size of Missouri, have been attacked to varying degrees over the past 15 years. Nature is always changing. But the mountain pine beetle ...

Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," ...

Hidden in Shades State Park is the stunning Pine Hills Nature Preserve, one of Indiana's last remaining old-growth forests.

When temperatures climb above freezing, with or without sunlight, many birds will go elsewhere for meals, taking seeds and insects from trees ... I noticed one pine siskin among them.