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 ...

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 ...

Some Western Washington poplar trees are turning brown just weeks after leafing out this spring and most will probably never be green again. Horticulturists say a deep lesion called a canker is ...

As a tree guy, who frequently crisscrosses the Big Country, and has been doing so for years, I get a pretty good look at the Big Country's "urban forest." Not only that, but I get to see, if I'm smart ...

Once upon a time, there was a poplar. It was a Lombardy poplar. And everyone loved it very much. People would come and take cuttings and plant it and play botanist. And in 1784, one man took a cutting ...

Question: What’s the difference between a popple tree and an aspen? I hear the terms used interchangeably. Answer: Popple (or poplar) are common names for aspen trees because their genus is populus, ...