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Pruning Highlight; Espalier Pruning: Training Trees into Living Patterns

Purdue Landscape Report: Espalier is a pruning and training technique that shapes a tree or shrub to grow in a flat, usually two-dimensional form, often against a wall, fence, or trellis. Rather than allowing branches to grow in every direction,...

Thank You, Turkey Trackers! Your Brood Counts Make a Difference – MyDNR

MyDNR, Indiana's Outdoor Newsletter: DNR needs your help monitoring the wild turkey population. Participate in the Turkey brood count this summer by reporting turkey hens with poults (broods) and hens without poults. Report your 2026 observations online from July 1...

Identifying Evergreens

Purdue Landscape Report: Many homeowners have evergreens in their home landscape. Evergreens provide a landscape service that other plants cannot – they add color to our landscapes in the winter, and provide some thermal protection for animals and birds. However,...

Celebrate Pollinator Week With Flowers of June Tour

In recognition of Pollinator Week June 22-28, 2026, let's see what is blooming at Purdue FNR Tippecanoe County property, Martell Forest. Wild petunia, Ruellia sp, are several species found in woodland and sunny edge habitats. The blooms do look like...

Pruning Highlight-Pollarding Trees: A Traditional Pruning Practice with Modern Uses

Purdue Landscape Report: Pollarding is a tree pruning method in which the upper branches of a tree are cut back to the same points on a regular schedule, creating a framework of knobby growth points from which new shoots emerge....

Danielle Howard Hired as FNR Extension Prescribed Fire Specialist

Danielle Howard has been hired as an Extension prescribed fire specialist housed with the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue The prescribed fire specialist position, funded by the Sam Shine Foundation, aims to increase prescribed fire capacity in...

Flat-Faced Longhorn Beetle Found in Hardwood Logs – IDNR Division of Entomology

Entomology Weekly Review: Purdue Forestry & Natural Resources (FNR) Extension would like to share a timely update from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources – Division of Entomology newsletter regarding a wood-boring insect that may be encountered in hardwood logs...

Connecting Research to Practice: Natural Resources & Land Use Spring Training

Agricultural & Natural Resources (ANR) Newsletter: On May 5, Natural Resources professionals gathered at the Davis Purdue Agricultural Center (DPAC) in Farmland, Indiana, for a forestry and wildlife management training led by Purdue Forestry and Natural Resources' Brian MacGowan, wildlife...

Indiana Monarch and Pollinator Conservation

Most of us have probably heard or seen a lot about pollinators in the media recently. The reason why is that pollinators are really, really important. We simply can’t live without them. Researchers estimate that one out of every three...

Box Tree Moth Range is Expanding

Purdue Landscape Report: Earlier this year, Ohio expanded its quarantine for box tree moth (Cydalima perspectalis) to include seven additional counties, bringing the total number of quarantined counties in the state to 14 (ODA, 2026). Michigan currently has 13 counties...

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