Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. In trees, heart rot is caused by a fungal disease that causes the center of ...

Today it’s all about heart disease — heart disease in trees that is. Obviously, trees do not have hearts. Trees consist of a beautifully engineered material called wood, designed to combine strength ...

Throughout their lifetimes, healthy forests produce more oxygen than they use, while taking in greenhouse gases via plants and soils. This ecosystem-wide service, called carbon sequestration, ...

A Fungus growing on a living tree is a symptom of heart rot. Trees are infected through wounds from lawn mowers, weed-whacker whips, deer rubbing, rodent chewing, frost cracks, broken branches and ...