The tree stump crashed through a fence. Beckett said it was still on fire when it came rolling down the hill but crews were able to extinguish the flames before they spread to a nearby boat.

Back in Calaveras County, the base of the Discovery Tree was further humiliated. On July 4 that year, 32 people had a dance party on the stump, as musicians and onlookers gathered around.

The second-largest alligator juniper tree in the country, known as the “Big Tree,” is still standing in the Gila National ...

In this gee-whiz science and great outdoors piece, an expert in tree-ring research shares some of the details of what trees can tell us — and whether or not their rings can reveal their age.

Though long in the making, one project in particular has stoked massive interest on TikTok: a whimsically-inviting outdoor hot tub made of a repurposed 73-year-old spruce tree stump.

The tree — dubbed “The Senator” in 1927 after a state lawmaker donated the land on which it sits — was found at Big Tree Park in Longwood until 2012. "The Senator" was considered one of ...

Sources and Further Information . Fien, Erin K. P., et al. "Drivers of Individual Tree Growth and Mortality in an Uneven-Aged, Mixed-Species Conifer Forest."Forest Ecology and Management 449 (2019 ...

The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a 145 million-year-old clump of dead trees on the Jurassic Coast — a 95-mile-long (153 kilometers) stretch of coastline in southern England littered with fossils ...

Walking past all the freshly-fallen trees in the forest, you may wonder why the Rockaway Big Tree has been lucky enough to keep standing for so long – an estimated 500 to 900 years.