There is a common native tree that helps wildlife survive winter by providing both food and shelter. That tree is the humble box elder, Acer negundo. Even though they are a type of maple, box elder ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Boxelder trees, also known as ash-leaved maples, are one of the most common ...

Moorhead - The box elder may be the Rodney Dangerfield of the tree world. Dismissed for its irregular form, weak wood and association with box elder bugs, the lowly tree gets no respect. But the ...

I should have known someone would want to know how to tell the gender of a female box elder tree: Hey, Answer Man! I was traveling south on U.S. 52 today and I noticed there's no longer an Apache Mall ...

As I strolled along the Rivanna River Trail on a recent morning, I discovered just off the path a mature box elder tree from which the bark on a huge portion of the trunk had been carefully stripped — ...