Q: In the spring of 1986 we planted a European weeping white birch in the middle of our rose garden. It was looking great until about two months ago when it started looking paler and paler. All the ...

FAIRBANKS — It’s not always easy to string the lights on a Christmas tree. Especially when the tree is taller than a house and has more branches than a bank. This particular tree-lighting exercise ...

Mid-winter is my favorite time to harvest birch for sweet-flavored food and warming beverages. Birch trees are easy to identify in winter thanks to their distinctive bark. The bark is an eye-catching ...

They don’t snore, but might creak during their slumbers. For the first time, trees have been shown to undergo physical changes at night that can be likened to sleep, or at least to day-night cycles ...

FAIRBANKS — The Fairbanks area is experiencing its annual melt-off this month, but the typical sight of dirty snow has been accentuated with a distinctive shade of rusty brown. The culprit is a ...