The most surprising part of tree climbing at Silver Falls State Park was how quickly we found ourselves exploring the canopy of an old-growth monster some 200-feet in the sky. Even with a group of ...

Snakes do a lot more than slither. Some swim, while others sidewind across sand (SN: 10/9/14). Some snakes even fly (SN: 6/29/20). But no one has ever seen a snake move the way that brown tree snakes ...

Wagner saved the biggest ascent for last, going up 3,213 feet on Mount Davis, Somerset County, the state’s highest summit, ...

A new study shows a species of tree snake uses an unprecedented form of locomotion in order to climb objects like trees. The brown tree snake loops its body into a lasso around wide, cylindrical ...

NEW ORLEANS — Christmas trees are beginning to go up in homes across the country, and while real tree prices remain stable this season, artificial trees are getting more expensive—largely because of ...

A few years ago, I recruited a neighborhood handyman to build a tree-house in my backyard. In part, this was to solve a problem: my children were good friends with the children who lived beside us and ...