Plan a peaceful paddle with your crew. Here are five places where you can cast off in a canoe.

If you take a walk in a snowy field (or forest) among some birch trees, look down. You should see tiny things in the snow, little seed-like structures. Look closer.

In this episode of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces the Paper Birch. This species is found in the North Woods of Northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Hardwoods. Yellow Birch. Agriculture Handbook 654, USDA Forest Service, Washington DC. Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and Maine Forest Service. 2008. Forest Trees of Maine.

Brown birch trees in both Southcentral and Interior Alaska this summer aren’t signaling an early fall. Rather, they are subject to an infestation of small, leaf-munching larvae. Alaska is in the ...

Seven of the park’s 10 most common tree species, including such iconic ones as the red spruce, paper birch and balsam fir, are expected to decline or possibly even disappear by 2100, forever ...

The North Country's maple syrup season ended last week for most producers, with record production and high-quality syrup. Adam Wild, director of the Uihlein Maple Research Forest, near Lake Placid ...

But this birch tree still stands. A fixture in the constant progress of life and nature, for better or worse. What makes it all the more ironic is that the gray birch is generally a short-lived tree.