Trees

Mayor Ed Gainey’s transition team released 120 pages of recommendations Thursday, one of which was about trees. It said the city needed to follow its own plan to stop developers from removing trees.

Pittsburgh City Council preliminarily approved legislation Wednesday to create a “significant tree registry." Residents will be able to nominate trees to the registry based on traits like species, ecological value and historic significance.

Lisa Ceoffe, forester for the City of Pittsburgh, says the health of the city’s tree population has improved since she assumed the position in the…

A forester in Pennsylvania says he's discovered a massive red oak tree that may be one of the state's biggest trees.Pennsylvania Forest Management's Tom…

The nonprofit Tree Pittsburgh released some disturbing data about Allegheny County’s tree canopy earlier this year. The canopy includes the leaves,…

In March 2016, workers for one of the nation’s largest natural gas pipeline companies cut down a large swath of maple trees in Susquehanna County–a rural…

The Allegheny Front has partnered with the online climate and weather almanac iSeeChange to help collect observations from people all across the country…

The National Forest Service wants to know how many and what kinds of trees line Pittsburgh streets and hillsides.Though forest service officials have…

Homeowners would no longer need to have Pittsburgh City Council approve reimbursements for damage to sidewalks from city tree roots under new legislation…

Over the weekend, Pittsburgh was hit by the fringe of a blizzard that left more than two feet of snow in parts of the East Coast. Public works crews and…