Many local trails travel through Fond du Lac County's varied landscape. Here are eight spots to check out while the weather ...

If you crave the solitude of an undeveloped stretch of coast to beachcomb, birdwatch, and sunbathe, check out America's best national seashores.

As the sun sets behind the Catoctin Mountains, casting long shadows across the forest, Gambrill State Park reveals perhaps ...

The History and Significance of Hickory Forest Park Sign dedication honors land donation that created it. Group photo of the participants in the sign-dedication ceremony.

You’ll pass moss-covered rock faces, exposed sandstone ledges and quiet stretches of oak-hickory forest. Wildflowers are abundant in spring and early summer, while fall brings bursts of red and gold ...

OAK FOREST, Ill. — A pedestrian was struck and killed early Thursday morning in Oak Forest. Just after 1:45 a.m., police responded the 150 block of South Cicero Avenue on the report of a crash ...

Wildfires have been a dominant ecological force in Southern forests for millennia, shaping longleaf pine ecosystems, wiregrass savannas, and oak-hickory uplands. Yet the way fire moves through the ...

The Wyassup Block, a total of 2,722 acres, and called a “high quality, intact forested habitat,” is “largely an oak-hickory forest ecosystem with some hemlock, white pine and red maple ...

A forest biome community is a regional classification recognized by botanists and forest scientists. Discover the kinds of forest biomes of North America.

Despite the hopes and efforts of Split Oak Forest’s most zealous defenders, the Central Florida Expressway Authority’s contentious plan to build a stretch of toll road through the prized ...

The oak and hickory provide hard mast acorns and nuts that are staple foods for many forest dwellers. They’re also preferred trees for the endangered Indiana bat to roost and nest.