On Verona Island, at the end of a dirt road, a couple dozen wizened apple trees stand sentry in a grassy field sloping down to the river. To the untrained eye, it's a bunch of old trees. To apple ...

Katharine Suding’s children arrived home one day in 2017 with a small bag of apples from an unkempt old apple tree that sat in the middle of a field near her home in Louisville. Suding, an ecology ...

Editor’s note: Part of this story was updated to reflect that a tree in the county that dated back to 1554 was sampled about a decade ago. It was not clear from the reporting whether the tree is still ...

On Verona Island, at the end of a dirt road, a couple dozen wizened apple trees stand sentry in a grassy field sloping down to the river. To the untrained eye, it's a bunch of old trees. To apple ...

From cottonwoods and apple trees to a pine older than the state, Boulder County’s trees hold some of the area’s history — going back hundreds of years. In an area full of forest land, nailing down the ...