Providing a welcoming habitat for birds in winter is as easy as planting cold-hardy trees that will provide much-needed shelter during that chilly weather.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seeking out shrubs and trees to plant in your backyard for a bird-friendly winter habitat? It feels so good to support birds in ...

Reduced vigor and smaller size are features rather than bugs for Oregon State University’s new Thompson hazelnut variety, which is intended specifically for high-density orchards. The diminutive trees ...

Eastern filbert blight, a fungal pathogen that kills hazelnut trees, first made its way to the Northwest in the 1960s. Since then, farmers have managed the fungus by pruning infected trees and ...

Hazel is a vintage name that has once again become trendy. From the old English haesel, the name Hazel refers to the hazel plant and the greenish-brown color hazel. The hazel tree or shrub is a ...

An archaeologist takes samples of pollen found in soil to understand the changing vegetation of a site: a companion technique to the authors' analysis of hazelnut shells. If we could stand in a ...

Researchers are hunting down the origins and extent of the outbreak of a new Eastern Filbert Blight strain that overcomes the disease resistance bred into Oregon hazelnut trees. Meanwhile, farmers are ...