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 ...

Pacific madrone and strawberry tree are two similar evergreen trees. Our native madrone, Arbutus menziesii, grows to 120 feet and is distinct in the landscape because of its smooth red bark and glossy ...

An Oak Harbor woman had hoped to save a large Pacific madrone tree that is slated be cut down to accommodate planned demolition and expansion of the city’s McDonald’s restaurant. Despite being named a ...

The Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii) can be a magnificent tree. I saw a rare, huge specimen in a wooded area way up Mt. Veeder Road. Thinking it might be of Champion proportions, I measured its ...

As he went for a morning walk yesterday at Seward Park, Rick Kolb stopped at a Pacific madrone tree that is dying along the shore of Lake Washington. Based on what he had heard from a friend, the ...

The morning air was warm and still, a summer-like haze still lingering over the Siskiyou Mountains in the first few weeks of fall. Red bark peeled slowly from the trunk of a Pacific madrone tree; ...

PORT ANGELES — Wood from an ancient tree has been returned to its owners in the form of finished bowls. Members of the Strait Turners, a North Olympic Peninsula wood-turners group, presented several ...