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The Comfort Maple with red autumn foliage.
Pelham, Ontario

Comfort Maple

Canada's oldest sugar maple has been growing since around 1500.
Luecke from satellite view
Smithville, Texas

Giant 'Luecke' Signature

A Texas landowner spelled out his name with three miles of trees, a giant signature that's been used by NASA to evaluate satellite imagery.
Permanently Closed
The 300-year-old tree.
Arbutus, Maryland

The Arbutus Oak

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.
Abul Bajandar earlier this year before several surgeries.
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'Tree Man' Is No Longer 'Tree Man'

After more than 16 operations, his hands are fixed.
Erik Shilling January 11, 2017
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In Austria, Zoo Elephants Eat Leftover Christmas Trees

Once a year, the Schönbrunn Palace pachyderms get a special snack.
Cara Giaimo January 11, 2017
The tunnel tree is no more.
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A Massive Tunnel Tree in California Has Fallen

RIP, thought-provoking sequoia.
Erik Shilling January 9, 2017
Permanently Closed
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Pooh's House

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.
The secret White House tree, revealed at last.
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For Teddy Roosevelt's Son, Rebelling Meant Sneaking Christmas Trees Into the White House

President Roosevelt thought trees should stay outdoors—so in 1902, his son took matters into his own hands.
Cara Giaimo December 16, 2016
A Christmas tree.
politics

How a Former Cheney Aide Nearly Killed the Christmas Tree Industry

The National Christmas Tree Board was supposed to protect American tree growers, until one man intervened.
Muira McCammon December 13, 2016
Wendy Baxter, a scientist at UC Berkeley, collects samples in the crown of a giant sequoia tree to study the effects of climate change on the forests of Sequoia National Park.
science

Ascending One of the World's Oldest, Tallest Trees for Science and the Views

Since 2011, drought and pestilence have killed more than 100 million trees in California. What does that mean for the fate of the world’s largest tree, the giant sequoia?
Thayer Walker, Novus Select and Biographic December 2, 2016
The upside-down fig tree.
Bacoli, Italy

Upside-Down Fig Tree

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.
Frankfurt, Germany

Pinkelbaum (Peeing Tree)

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.
Marks from a chainsaw are still visible 40 years after the event.
Stockholm, Sweden

Battle of the Elms

The scars of a remarkably organized public protest to save 13 elm trees are still visible in this Stockholm park.
Graceful remnants of ancient cedar trunk
Uozu-shi, Japan

Buried Forest Museum

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.
Permanently Closed
Many breeds of dog.
Shell Lake, Wisconsin

Museum of Woodcarving

The world's largest woodcarving collection includes dozens of Bible scenes and a wooden bestiary, all carved by one man.
Pescadero Point
Del Monte Forest, California

Ghost Trees of Pescadero Point

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.
Screenshot of drone footage of Celtic Cross in Donegal Forest.
Killea, Ireland

Secret Celtic Tree Cross

A massive Celtic cross secretly growing in an Irish forest.
The tree man, post-arrest.
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Man Dressed As Tree Arrested

A man dressed himself as a tree.
Cara Giaimo October 25, 2016