Today, there are 11 dawn redwoods on the Michigan Big Tree Register, a program of the Michigan Botanical Society. The ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

Ideally choose a lowest permanent branch height eight feet above pedestrian areas and 14 feet above the road. Your tree may not be tall enough yet to have any permanent branches if it is shorter ...

Dawn redwood trees once were believed extinct. The towering trees have been quietly growing in Michigan for decades.