Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Tromping through our woods in December in search of a Christmas tree, I ...

Beneath the deep shade of the boreal conifers, the forest floor is cold, dark, and damp. The ground cover varies from bare patches of partially decayed conifer needles and debris to a profusion of ...

Tami Gingrich explores the unique features of an ancient group of vascular plants known as the clubmosses that evolved over ...

Josh Cherubini spends his days in the sprawling woods, surveying the trails and maintaining the grounds of Denison University ...

This helps the plants and trees to flourish ... The pretty bluebells will flower in the early spring sunshine, before the forest floor becomes shaded when the leaves will have grown on the ...