Banyans can live for hundreds of years. The thick, shiny green leaves provide dense shade and the surface roots and hollow trunk offer habitat to invertebrates, bats, reptiles, amphibians and birds.

This order is the latest in a series of hollow promises from the administration to cut Pentagon waste, and the latest push to deregulate Pentagon acquisition in ways that will lead to dramatically ...

Not far from the high-risk tree was another pine with a half-hollow trunk. “We obviously have a large central cavity,” said Foerster, knocking on the tree. “I don’t know if you can hear ...