Few shade trees are as distinctive in the home landscape as birch trees. Their unique bark characteristics, distinctive growth form and graceful delicate foliage are reason alone to feature one or ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - A voracious insect - the bronze birch borer - is picking off beloved birch trees throughout Oregon. Common for many years in Eastern Oregon, the hard-to-control beetle first showed ...

A new study sequences the genomes of 80 silver birch trees, a tree that has not been studied much by scientists despite its commercial value for papermaking, construction, furniture-building and more.

DULUTH, Minn. — Law enforcement officials in northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota say there’s been a recent rash of illegal cutting of small birch trees that are smuggled out and sold as ...