REMER, Minn. — Judging by the view from a gravel road north of Remer, Minnesota, the forest is fine. Maybe some dry patches in spots, sure. But nothing that would grab your attention as you drive by.

In the early fall Mother Nature sets up her easel. With broad, wide strokes her brushes color the maple, birch and cherry trees in the forest, mixing them together so perfectly. When the sun shines on ...

The first sign of an attack is usually a smell, an aroma that can be quite pleasant, like a freshly cut Christmas tree. It emanates from some of the deepest swamps and most hidden recesses of ...

If you garden in a colder climate, you know that compromises are part of the game. So, finding a tree that grows fast, thrives in the cold, and still offers splendid colors might seem like an ...

Eastern larch beetles, tiny burrowing bugs native to Minnesota, are exploding in number across the state's northern forest and have killed or damaged about a third of the state's tamarack trees — one ...

Q: Regarding your request for photos of tamarack trees, here is a photo I took on Oct. 22 just east of Meadowlands, Minnesota. The tamaracks were blazing, and I loved the contrast with what I think ...

The season of dazzling hillsides ablaze with vivid, colorful, autumnal foliage is all but over. There may be three more weeks before the winter solstice, but already most of our trees are showing ...

The tamarack, or eastern larch, is a deciduous evergreen tree that sheds its needles in the fall, only to regrow them the following spring, forming a whorl at the end of the twig, which makes ...