Randy Noble has bled for birch beer. About 50 years ago, Noble and a friend followed a recipe for the beverage — made from the sap and branches of the black birch tree — in a well-worn Euell Gibbons ...

When I became a folklorist, writing for Dr. Alfred Shoemaker’s Pennsylvania Folklife magazine, I naturally relied on my native background, my Bieber ancestors farmed in the Oley Hills of Rockland ...

As a historian I was eager when I came across early local Pennsylvania maps which gave the locations of Birch oil distilleries, a pioneer occupation among PA Dutch farmers. But growing up on wooded ...

Few shade trees are as distinctive in the home landscape as birch trees. Their unique bark characteristics, distinctive growth form and graceful delicate foliage are reason alone to feature one or ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. River birch has been called "the most beautiful of American trees" by Prince ...