A beautiful tree sits on the north side of Big Chico Creek, shading the picnic table at site No. 34 in lower Bidwell Park. Its thick, smooth lower branches are perfect for climbing, and its form is ...

Neal Kramer/Special to the Record Searchlight The bright red or orange fruits of the madrone provide food for many wildlife species, including birds like waxwings and robins and mammals such as bears, ...

WITH ITS broad-leaved, evergreen foliage, shiny red bark, pink urn-shaped flowers, festive multicolored fruit of orange and yellow, and crooked maroon trunk, it is arguably the most beautiful tree in ...

The disease ravaging the state's oak trees has spread to bay and madrone trees, placing California's entire forest ecosystem in danger and raising the stakes in an increasingly ugly biological war.

A beautiful tree sits on the north side of Little Chico Creek, shading the picnic table at site No. 34 in lower Bidwell Park. Its thick, smooth lower branches are perfect for climbing, and its form is ...