Firefighters will continue to vigorously fight accidental wildfires, even in the region's least dense areas, a Suffolk fire ...

Controlled or prescribed fires have been used on Long Island since the 1995 Sunrise Fire near Westhampton to improve habitats ...

When used properly, organic mulch can provide numerous benefits for garden beds and landscapes. When used improperly, mulch ...

Pigeon milk consists of fat-and protein-rich yellow curds that detach from a pouch inside the bird’s neck. But wait until you ...

Dice said the agency will use about 85,000 seedlings that are endemic to the area. Before the fire, a forester for the agency ...

Put peanut butter in your homemade suet mix, smear it on tree bark or spread it on pine cones and dip them in bird seed. Woodpeckers, nuthatches and blue jays love the treat, too. Robins also eat ...

The Western Pine may be Idaho’s state tree – but another type of pine tree is notable for its age and resilience in Idaho’s ...

By the time the danger had passed the morning after fire ripped through 600 acres of the Central Pine Barrens in Westhampton ...

Due to a lack of good cone crops in recent years and a shrinking workforce to gather seeds, the state is facing a shortage of black spruce and jack pine cones ... 1-3 feet of the trees, we ...

Pine nuts, a popular seed type favored by many northern forest birds ... Juniper berries (modified cones produced by the female tree) are not only an essential component of gin but relished by a host ...