Trees

About 100 seedlings of the whitebark pine tree were planted in Central Oregon early last month. The goal is to help increase their declining population.

Portland forestry officials are bracing for a major die-off of ash trees as an invasive beetle spreads through the region. The emerald ash borer has killed more than 100 million trees in the U.S. since its discovery in Michigan in 2002, and Oregon officials have long-feared its arrival.

The Biden administration wants the government to plant more than a billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands as officials struggle to counter climate change's increasing toll on the nation’s forests.

Bureaucratic infighting and competition appears to be setting the city back in its efforts to plant more trees — and protect more residents from extreme weather.

With work that takes years to mature, Oregon artist Richard Reames relishes his "long, slow conversations" with his trees.

Salem has issued a fine of more than $138,000 for the removal of 100-plus trees in south Salem

Drought and intense heat waves delivered a “knockout punch” for hundreds of thousands of acres of Oregon trees this summer, researchers say.

Reports have surfaced in recent weeks of more dead or dying trees along Highways 20 and 126 near Sisters, just a few years after a massive die-off tied to a now-restricted pesticide.

Jim Fitzgerald's passion for the forest runs deep, and like the trees that he photographs, his archival prints will be with us for generations.

In response to allegations of mismanagement, the Oregon Department of Transportation plans to hire an independent arborist or forester to review the state’s post-wildfire hazard tree removal operations.