trees

A Manchester program is offering free trees to residents in some neighborhoods as part of a $2.2 million plan to add 500 new trees to the Queen City.

Evergreens drop their needles over time, but if you learn the natural cycle, you can identify when you need to take action.

The "Independence Tree" was planted in 1776 outside the Moffatt-Ladd House in Portsmouth by William Whipple, soon after he signed the Declaration of Independence.

The end of the holiday season has an unlikely beneficiary: goats.

“Drought, plus beech bark disease, plus beech leaf disease can really be a bad combination,” says Jeff Garnas, an associate professor of forest ecosystem health at the University of New Hampshire.

2025 swung from a wet spring to a dry summer. Some scientists say this will make it hard for trees to produce vivid colors.

Cottonwoods, along with related big-toothed and trembling aspens, are poplars — some of New England’s fastest-growing tree pioneers.

The weather in New Hampshire’s White Mountains has, over millennia, created forests that are specifically suited to extreme weather conditions.

We visit the unique ecosystem of the Manchester Cedar Swamp Preserve in our series celebrating access for all to our state's natural beauty.

The trees aren’t dying, according to forest experts. But they are experiencing a particularly bad bout of white pine needle damage.