Christopher David Benda stands along side the state champion bald cypress, No. 2 on the Illinois Big Tree Register, in the Cache River. I found the cypress on a paddle through the Cache River ...

I’ve been writing these nature columns for many years, and I hope to write them for years to come, but sometimes the writing ...

Trees are slowly dying after being hit for years by weedkillers. Their once-robust canopy has thinned. Many of the leaves are cupped ... everywhere they look in Illinois, including in nature ...

It all adds up to a longer growing season in Trelease Woods, a centuries-old forest near the University of Illinois.

Throughout much of southern Illinois, there have been many branches and trees fall due to the weight of the ice which has collected on them. In Carbondale, a large tree fell and blocked residents ...

According to cicada expert Dr. Gene Kritsky with Mount St. Joseph University, a particular mite known as the "oak leaf itch ... museum said. Trees in areas that saw large emergences could have ...

According to Illinois ... the leaves start to drop off then," Jeanes said. There are some factors that can change just how colorful the leaves turn and how long they last. Already, trees that ...