And I kept reading through the years. Hiaasen wrote columns for the Herald for 36 years, retiring from that job in 2021. But at 71, he’s still writing. His 15th novel, “Fever Beach,” comes ...

Let’s look at the following example: In the late 1800s, apple orchards containing trees originally planted and nurtured by Johnathan “Appleseed” Chapman decades earlier were still thriving ...

An area on the outside of a tree trunk that appears to be stained white or looks wet during summer is likely bacterial wetwood. It is also known as slime flux. Wetwood is a common disease ...

While strolling around, a book caught my eye, and I picked it up. It focused on the banyan tree and leadership styles. I was intrigued. The author essentially wrote that leaders must not be like ...

Using my maple trees to produce maple syrup, in my opinion, is a very wise choice. I am carefully using the natural resources (the maple trees and soils upon which they grow) to benefit me ...

A scene from Tahiti Terrace, a mobile home neighborhood destroyed in the Palisades fire. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) ...

Becoming a columnist, like so many things in my career, was a bit of a fluke. As I end this column, I’d like to share the strange way that it began. After many years in The Times’s newsroom as ...

I have some answers, because tree-loving readers have been responding to my column in which Barger, a member of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, said treeless neighborhoods can be sterile ...

I have some answers, because tree-loving readers have been responding to my column in which Barger, a member of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, said treeless neighborhoods can be sterile, and I ...