Iowa’s biggest sycamore tree — a 350-year-old specimen located in Geode State Park in Southeast Iowa — was destroyed by a suspicious fire Feb. 18. A giant-of-a-tree at 107 feet tall with a trunk ...

Around 20 arborists and big-tree-enthusiasts met Friday morning in the historic Senate Chamber at the Old Capitol Museum for a seminar given by Mark Rouw, a longtime volunteer for the Iowa Department ...

IOWA CITY — Legend has it, the Reading Tree was built by elves. The mini library appeared within a 16-foot stump of a white pine tree in Iowa City about a month ago, with the hope the mythical elves’ ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Many people around Eastern Iowa celebrated Earth Day Monday, whether that be cleaning up parks or simply taking time to learn more about what people can do to help the ...

Western Iowa is starting to see more widespread cases of trees becoming infested with the emerald ash borer. The first case was discovered in Woodbury County last year and that’s where Lindsay Meylor ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - An estimated 2.67 million trees in Iowa forests and another 4.4 million trees in urban canopies were killed or damaged by the 2020 Midwest derecho that swept ...

Joseph Hennager and his wife, Julia are the proud owners of the Iowa City Reading Tree. They have lived in Iowa City for over 40 years and currently reside in a tall, gray house with a screened-in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The emerald ash borer has been found in all of Iowa's 99 counties. (Photo by Dr. James E. Zablotny/USDA) The emerald ash borer, a ...

A year ago this week, a powerful storm called a derecho blew through parts of Iowa. It destroyed millions of trees. Some cities lost half of their tree canopy, and only a small fraction of those trees ...

Christmas Tree farms in northwest Iowa are struggling to get their saplings to take root. Extreme drought in northwest Iowa is impacting farmers’ yields – including on Christmas tree farms. The dry ...