Many ornamental trees are valued for their spring flowers or fall foliage, but they offer little aesthetic value during the winter. Not the river birch tree. The river birch’s beautiful bark ...

The Borough of Trees is getting a first-of-its-kind Japanese mini-forest this spring – which is slated to improve air quality ...

You don't even have to plant the tree. On the city's Facebook ... Army Corps of Engineers forester Lewis Wiechmann plants a river birch tree June 2 in Goose Island County Park along the ...