Scott Bailey is a retired Forest Service ecologist, not a detective. But for the last few years he’s been trying to solve a mystery in northern New Hampshire. The case involves a rare kind of willow ...

The huge weeping willow tree near the Stilling Basin at Blue Marsh Lake Recreation Area in Bern Township stands no more. “That came about because we evaluated that tree, as we do with a lot of our ...

Once there was a willow tree on Penn State’s University Park campus that was an off-shoot of a willow tree that grew in Alexander Pope’s garden. It was a Salix babylonica “Pendula,” and it was brought ...