A beautiful tree sits on the north side of Little Chico Creek, shading the picnic table at site No. 34 in lower Bidwell Park. Its thick, smooth lower branches are perfect for climbing, and its form is ...

Pacific madrone and strawberry tree are two similar evergreen trees. Our native madrone, Arbutus menziesii, grows to 120 feet and is distinct in the landscape because of its smooth red bark and glossy ...

The morning air was warm and still, a summer-like haze still lingering over the Siskiyou Mountains in the first few weeks of fall. Red bark peeled slowly from the trunk of a Pacific madrone tree; ...

There’s no missing them if you’re lucky enough to encounter them, though you may wonder what the heck they are. Those clusters of little red berries hanging from manzanita-esque trees are in fact ...

As he went for a morning walk yesterday at Seward Park, Rick Kolb stopped at a Pacific madrone tree that is dying along the shore of Lake Washington. Based on what he had heard from a friend, the ...