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Enhancing the Value of Public Spaces Team Honored by PUCESA

The Enhancing the Value of Public Spaces: Creating Healthy Communities Team, has been honored for its efforts by the Purdue Cooperative Extension Specialists' Association (PUCESA). The collaborative effort of Purdue Extension professionals from Forestry and Natural Resources, Health and Human Sciences,...

ID That Tree: Firs and Spruces

On this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee shows you the differences between two non-native species commonly found in Indiana in decorative capacities, and especially during the holiday season, firs and spruces. Learn the differences in...

ID That Tree: Winterberry

It's not holly, but it will help you keep holiday cheer long into the winter, meet Winterberry. On this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee explains the difference between winterberry and holly, as well as how...

Brooke Receives PUCESA Early Career Award for Extension Work

Purdue Extension wildlife specialist Jarred Brooke has been named as a recipient of the Purdue Cooperative Extension Specialists' Association (PUCESA) Early Career Award, which recognizes an Extension specialist with less than 10 years of service. Recipients must demonstrate Extension leadership; excellence in...

ID That Tree: Umbrella Magnolia Spring Bloom

On this edition of ID That Tree, meet umbrella magnolia, a small tree easily identified by the clusters of long simple leaves at the end of the twigs, which form an umbrella shape, and by its beautiful white blossoms in...

Repurposing Your Real Christmas Tree

With the holidays over the needles are beginning to fall from your natural Christmas tree, continue to spread holiday cheer by returning your tree to nature. Jarred Brooke, Extension wildlife specialist, shares a few creative ways you can repurpose and...

Winter Water!

In particular, newly fall-planted trees, shrubs, and perennials should be monitored and watered late into the season, since they haven't had time to develop extensive root systems. Pay attention to evergreens plants. Evergreens do not go dormant in the winter...

ID That Tree: Pin Oak

On this edition of ID That Tree, meet a species of native Indiana oak from the broad red/black oak family, which is found in bottomlands and areas with imperfectly drained soil, the Pin Oak. This species is recognizable by round...

Question: Found this tree frog and I can’t narrow down the species, can you help?

Question: About two months ago I found a tree frog in my parents backyard and was curious about the species of the frog. From what I can tell it appears to be a Gray Tree Frog however it is quite...

Question: Is there a way to repair the tree tip of my pine tree?

Question: The tip of my jack pine, probably 5 years old, had been broken but not severed from the tree. It was hanging, still half attached. Is there some way to repair the tree tip so it can perhaps heal?...

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