Michigan offers a variety of nuts ready to pick and harvest from the wild. Here's what to know before foraging.

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Of the dozen or so American hickories, shellbark and shagbark hickory trees ...

When settlers arrived to farm around Chicago in the 1830s, they found rich woodlands of majestic oaks and scattered hickory trees. These trees had survived fires and storms and provided a bounty of ...

In this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces the mockernut or white hickory. This species is typically found on high dry ridges and other dry soil locations.

In this edition of ID That Tree, learn how to tell Red Hickory apart from its cousins shellbark, shagbark and pignut hickory. Located typically in upland dry sites, red hickory stands out with ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Yellowbud hickory trees are abundant in Iowa’s forests, yet few make use of the trees’ bitter-tasting ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The shellbark hickory (Carya laciniosa) is a shaggy gray-bark species. This ...