MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- County sheriffs and state natural resource officials are trying to respond to a rash of thefts of birch trees in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Thieves are quickly cutting down ...

AUOROA, Minn. - A 40-year-old Aurora man has been charged with stealing more than $3,400 worth of birch trees off state and county land near the Iron Range. A criminal complaint has been filed in St.

Thieves are illegally cutting down thousands of birch trees in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin to make a quick buck off city dwellers who love the paper-white logs, limbs and twigs in their home ...

There are plenty of twigs about after the recent storms to help anyone keen to learn a bit more about how to identify the tree species of Sheffield. Botanist Gerry Firkins, from Sorby Natural History ...