Nearly a foot of snow has melted. The deep freeze that sent temperatures across the region plummeting to below zero has warmed to a balmy 55 degrees on a sunny February day. As Matt ...

In 1872, a Nebraska newspaper editor and tree lover named J. Sterling Morton proposed dedicating a day to planting trees in his home state. The idea, shall we say, took root. That year, April 10 ...

Owls visit your yard for food. They stick around for sleeping, nesting, and hunting purposes, if the conditions are right.

The Green Communities Trees Program will coordinate the planting of 1,025 trees across more than 40 counties in Illinois. Woodford County is looking for volunteers to plant 25 of its own.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mississippians spend an inordinate amount of time in their yards, and throughout the South, people maintain their yards keeping ...