When I was a child in the 1980s, my family traveled nearly every summer from our home in Los Angeles to the other side of the world. We spent monsoon-drenched weeks on my grandparents’ farm in ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaf shapes play an important role in tree identification, providing key ...

Q. The magnolia in our backyard doesn’t seem to be thriving. The branches and leaves aren’t as thick and lush as they were a year or so ago. And when I looked closely I realized there are spots on ...