As you approach spring landscaping chores, you might be considering adding a dogwood tree to your yard. But, when do dogwoods bloom? They typically flower between early spring and early summer, ...

Ideally, you’d be reading this in very early spring, when the dogwood bloom is beginning to work its elegant magic in the older neighborhoods fanning out from lower Bidwell Park and downtown Chico.

To the untrained eye, trees in winter may all look like an indistinct sea of brown. But to the people who know and love trees, each barren trunk is unique. Anita Jurkowski was interested in forestry ...