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The bright orange, yellow and crimson colors of leaves signal the changing season. They flutter to the ground silently with the autumn breeze. Something else is falling from the trees; they make a ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – It’s called chicken-of-the-woods fungi. It grows at the base of dead and living trees here in Ohio and other locations and tastes like chicken — seriously. For National ...

Cover your head and don't look up! Naturalists say this is a "mast year" in much of the country, when hardwood trees drop an overabundance of nuts. SIMON: Good times for a walk in the woods to watch ...

Majestic oak trees have been capturing attention long before travelers on the Oregon Trail stopped their wagons and set up their new life. Indigenous people nurtured oaks for edible acorns, and ...