A sad fact of life is that sometimes a tree must be cut down. Some trees are beset by invasive insects or disease, others may be mangled by storms and some die from environmental stress or old age.

Tree removal can be a pain, especially if you're dealing with a pretty sizeable one. You have to trim branches and remove them from the area, cut the tree trunk down to size — tasks that can be helped ...

Every other Friday, the Outside/In team here at NHPR answers listener’s questions about the natural world. This week's question came from Mo in Epsom, New Hampshire. “It's the middle of December and I ...