If there's a swampy corner in your backyard, the swamp chestnut oak (Quercus michauxii) is a tree worth considering. It is tall, does exceptionally well in drenched conditions, and will turn that ...

JENNINGS COUNTY, Ind. — One southern Indiana family truly has one of the largest trees in the nation. Richard and Kris Schepman’s family farm, located outside of Crothersville, is home to a swamp ...

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources will offer open houses at numerous state forests on Oct. 28, 29 and 30.

We are in the middle of a very hot summer. As I was mowing the yard this weekend, I stopped to take a break in the shade of the swamp chestnut oak tree in my front yard. I started thinking about the ...

This swamp chestnut oak is one of three giant trees within 50 yards of each other in Huntley Meadows Park in the Alexandria area. The others are a pin oak and another swamp chestnut oak. "We feel that ...

The tallest tree in Indiana used to be in Hamilton County, a Bitternut Hickory standing at an impressive 152 feet. The tree's ...

All of the 400 or so species of oaks in the world belong to the genus Quercus, and North Americans are blessed with about 100 of them. You may have heard that American oaks, that is, those in the ...

Swamp chestnut oak has chestnut-like foliage and is a major component of forests that used to be made up of both oaks and chestnut trees before chestnuts were almost wiped off the American landscape ...

The Arlington County Board named these as "specimen trees," a designation that helps protect them from removal or injury. White oak: The only privately owned tree nominated. 4836 N. 30th St. 16 feet ...

What do Native Americans from as long ago as 6000 BC, Francis Marion’s troops during the Revolutionary War, escaped slaves in pre-Civil War days, moonshiners, and fine ladies hats of the late 1800s ...