MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A popular decorating trend is causing a problem in Minnesota and Wisconsin's northwoods. Conservation officers said people are illegally cutting down birch trees at an alarming ...

The top of my dead white birch tree toppled over. The cause was rotting. Folks also call this tree “canoe birch” and “silver birch.” The official name is “paper birch,” Betula papyrifera. It is very ...

Brazen thieves armed with axes and chainsaws are plundering parks, forests and private land in Wisconsin's Northwoods. Their prey? White birch trees. Thousands of trees have disappeared since last ...

Editor's Note: This column first appeared in the York Weekly in 2013. Paper birch (also called white birch) is an iconic tree of the north and probably our most easily recognized tree because of its ...

A number of conifers are candidates for the Official Evergreen of Winter, but among the leaf-shedding shade trees there is just one superstar, the birch tree with its peeling snow-white bark. Birches ...

The Marion E. Brooks Natural Area in the Quehanna Wild Area in Elk County is one of the largest stands of white birch in Pennsylvania, which is the southern extent of the range of that northern tree.