PORT TOWNSEND — A second town hall-style meeting on the future of the Lombardy poplar trees lining Port Townsend’s entrance is set for today at 5 p.m. The forum ...

Dear Neil: I received a small sapling as a gift when I purchased other trees from a well-known national mail order source of trees. I asked the company what it is, and they told me Lombardy poplar.

When the people of young Boise City began to involve themselves in what the Idaho Tri-weekly Statesman called “The Tree Mania,” they chose species that were fast-growing and readily available. This ...

PORT TOWNSEND — It’s not a matter of whether the Lombardy poplar trees will come down, it’s a question of what happens in the wake of the clearcutting. That was the message from city officials during ...

Dead and diseased Lombardy poplar trees growing as a visual screen between Interstate 90 and the Spalding Auto Parts wrecking yard will be cut down. The trees are part of a highway beautification ...

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Forty years ago, 120 Lombardy poplars were planted in Issaquah at Front Street North and Gilman Boulevard. Tall, columnar and fast-growing, the trees soon rose ...

Lombardy poplar trees dot the landscape at the bottom of the canyon. That's because they were a favorite of settler I.B. Perrine; he planted several groves near his ranch. Others followed his example ...

I’m not an arborist or forester but I do love trees … their stateliness, the shade they provide, the fact that birds use them for their nests and many more reasons.That’s why it pains me to have to ...

EAGLE — The facts of life are that lifetimes end for everything and everyone — even Eagle’s Magic Tree. For 9-year-old Reeve Mairose and her friends, the tree outside Eagle Public Library wasn’t just ...

Drought and disease have taken a heavy toll on five non-native Lombardy poplar trees near the main entrance to UC Santa Cruz. The campus will start removing the decaying trees on Monday (Aug. 28), ...