GUILFORD — The 150-year-old maple tree at the Dudley Farm Museum had a long life. Little ones played on a rope swing hung from its branches and sap was tapped during maple sugaring season. But members ...

James Johnston has been studying trees in the Blue Mountains that are older than America, and he’s disturbed by how many trees, after surviving for a few centuries or longer, died during a single ...

One doesn’t expect to outlive a tree. Our clocks tick at a different pace. Yet it happens, and sometimes it’s almost like a death in the family. The old shagbark hickory beside our driveway is that ...