As November comes to a close, we find ourselves just three weeks away from the official arrival of winter. Many of us have seen our first snowflakes already, and last week, we had a wintry mix that ...

Q: Regarding your request for photos of tamarack trees, here is a photo I took on Oct. 22 just east of Meadowlands, Minnesota. The tamaracks were blazing, and I loved the contrast with what I think ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every fall, Washington’s larch trees transform from green to golden yellow before shedding their needles, creating a short-lived ...

Western larches are stately trees, soaring 90 to nearly 200 feet tall, with branches that spill out in a neat cascade from a narrow crown. While the majority of conifers are evergreen — retaining ...

Gus, center, stands in a Jim Girard Memorial Grove in Lolo National Forest. (Hailey Smalley/Daily Inter Lake) Gus is the largest known western larch tree in the world, standing 154 feet tall. (Hailey ...