Driving down a wooded lane recently, I remarked on the striking contrast between the deep green pines and the snow-white bark of our native white birches (Betula papyrifera). Several kinds of birches ...

Randy Noble has bled for birch beer. About 50 years ago, Noble and a friend followed a recipe for the beverage — made from the sap and branches of the black birch tree — in a well-worn Euell Gibbons ...

I suspect that if Lake States residents were polled about their favorite trees, paper birch would fall among the top five.

Scratch and then sniff a black or yellow birch twig, and the pleasant aroma will likely put a smile on your face. What you are smelling is oil of wintergreen (methyl salicylate). This chemical ...