Height ranges from 60 to 120 feet with straight cylindrical boles and diameters of two to three feet. Weight ranges from 45 to 56 pounds per cubic foot with an average weight of 51 pounds. Wood is ...

Bitternut hickory trees were one of the most important perennial staple food crops in the eastern U.S. for eight thousand years or more.

One doesn’t expect to outlive a tree. Our clocks tick at a different pace. Yet it happens, and sometimes it’s almost like a death in the family. The old shagbark hickory beside our driveway is that ...

HICKORY, N.C. — A 100-year-old tree heavily damaged a home in Hickory early Wednesday morning. Firefighters put up caution tape around the home on 23rd Street Drive Southeast after the pine oak fell ...