More than 200 oak, maple and dogwood saplings are taking root in the county’s tree nursery in Parsippany-Troy Hills, part of ...

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service was established as the Soil Conservation Service on April 27, 1935.

As part of the program, the Forest Service maintains the Big Tree List, a compilation of the largest native and naturalized ...

Wildland Urban Interface, aka WUI. If haven’t heard of WUI, you haven’t been paying attention to conflagrations that laid ...

According to gardening experts, New Jersey is getting warmer, and that carries the headache of new plants and new bugs that ...

Tree cover also provides shade, keeping things cool during the summer heat. That helps combat the urban heat island effect, where an abundance of manmade surfaces like parking lots, sidewalks and ...

which are not near any water bodies and have some of the lowest tree covers in the city. Story continues below this ad The relative coolness coincides with the increase in green cover of the city from ...

Each year we receive questions on termination timing of cereal covers. This question occurs as farmers consider trade-offs between a positive return on investment from the cover crop, by allowing ...

Amid the city's rapidly shrinking green cover, the court took note of the extremely low survival rate of transplanted trees and pointed to the civic body's repeated failures in similar attempts.

Four Southern New Jersey counties have been declared disaster areas as farmers grapple with severe drought, the United States Department of Agriculture said. Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and ...