Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. In trees, heart rot is caused by a fungal disease that causes the center of ...

Today it’s all about heart disease — heart disease in trees that is. Obviously, trees do not have hearts. Trees consist of a beautifully engineered material called wood, designed to combine strength ...

Sue Bostic inspects the crop for color on her family’s western Virginia Christmas tree farm daily. Green is good, yellow bad. If it’s yellow she sees, brown is sure to follow, and the tree that had ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Root and butt rot is one of the most common forms of tree disease affecting ...