As residents prepare to replace trees that fell in their yards, CVPS Forestry Manager Duane Dickinson said they should think about power lines overhead and potential lines buried in the ground before they plant new trees. When choosing and planting a tree, CVPS officials said property owners should consider the following: Is the planting spot sunny, shady or in between? Some plants are shade-tolerant, others need all-day sun. Estimate the maximum height and canopy spread that's tolerable...

Roy Hopfensperger, assistant public works manager for the village of Plover, explains to Roosevelt second-graders the proper way to plant a tree. He then demonstrated to the students the correct way to plant a tree. Roy Hopfensperger, village of Plover assistant public works manager, said the celebration is to get kids learning about planting and thinking about why people celebrate Arbor Day. During the next two months, they will learn about trees, recycling, conservation and appreciation...

A similar situation is happening in Arizona where crews of more than 240 people are trying to contain a fire that has burned more than 1,000 acres. If the area receives rain that is predicted for next week, the threat of large forest fires will go down since the greens on trees will start showing. Once we have green on the forest floor and on trees, the threat of fires go down because green doesn t burn like the dry leaves, she said. Use common sense and don t light a fire if the...

A team of about 1,500 fire fighters are trying to check the spread of the fire, but it is still out of control due to the continuous dry weather. On April 20, a fire broke out in a forest also in the Nyingchi Prefecture, which was extinguished two days later by more than 6,000 fire-fighters in aid of an artificial rainfall. So far 150 hectares of forest have been burned, according to the latest monitoring of a satellite remote sensor. Tibet experienced its third warm winter in the last...

China sent thousands of personnel to battle a forest fire across a three-kilometre front in its remote north-eastern mountains on Tuesday, reported official news agency, Xinhua. A 1987 fire in the heavily forested Great Xingan Mountains, China s worst blaze in four decades, killed at least 200 people and destroyed around a million hectares of timberland in three weeks. Share this story! China battles forest fire in northeast mountains. The local meteorological bureau forecast strong winds...