Why do dead leaves stay on trees during winter?

Scientists are investigating the reasons some plants still wear last season’s tattered clothes.
AgriLife Today

Texas A&M Forest Service increases funding to combat oak wilt spread

As Texas enters the most critical window for oak wilt transmission, Texas A&M Forest Service will offer funding to assist private landowners ...
Iowa Public Radio

The 'King of the Great Plains' is dying. Drought is killing giant oak trees in the Midwest

Dead trees line the Salt Creek and Platte River near Mahoney State Park in June 2025. Horticulturists with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission were stumped when they started seeing significant ...
The Gazette

After 10 years of mysterious white oak deaths, experts still looking for answers

Greenwood Forestry CFO Mike Woolery examines a dead white oak tree during a Woodland Owner’s Association field session in Amana on Aug. 27. Foresters and tree professionals explored three locations to ...
Florida Today

That dead tree stump you're thinking about removing? Don't. It's feeding insects and fungi

Did you know that when you leave the dead tree stump in the yard, or you pile up the limbs that you pruned from your tree, you are going to bring more life to your yard? The typical reaction to a dead ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

There isn't much you can do about oak galls

Bulging horned oak galls can be seen on fallen limbs piled up on the street in the 6400 block of Loughborough Avenue in front of a dead oak tree in 2023. The golf ball-size growths on oak twigs are ...
WTOC-TV

Dead oak from McCauley Park made into park bench

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The City of Savannah is bringing new life to a tree that suffered damages from a storm. The McCauley Park live oak was affectionately known to many neighbors as “Spider Web.” It ...