The silver maple tree (Acer saccharinum) is one of the most common trees in North America. It generally grows 50 to 80 feet tall, though a 10-year-old sapling will stand approximately 25 feet tall.

On one Saturday this September, my wife, Heidi, went hiking with friends in Silverthorne. She sent me photos. The clouds are amazing, hovering above the mountains. The leaves are changing, they're a ...

A crowd gathered in front of a tree felled during Friday night’s thunderstorm to take pictures and collect a leaf or two as a memento and even mourn, for this was no ordinary tree. Perhaps 150 years ...

FELLED: Letter writer Kira Jahn stands beside a silver leaf maple tree before it was cut down recently. Editor’s note: The following letter was received after efforts failed to prevent a silver leaf ...

COLUMBIA — Brad Baldwin, Corey Draughon and Michael Jones from Nelson's Tree Service trim dead limbs from a silver leaf maple tree on Stewart Road on Thursday. Draughon estimates that the tree is 80 ...

Part of the tree that is said to have inspired the song The Maple Leaf Forever, unofficially considered Canada's first national anthem, is now on a pair of rock and roll tours. Two guitars have been ...

Audra Dar was having breakfast with her sorority sisters Monday morning when they heard a “huge crack,” looked out the window and watched a silver leaf maple tree fall on two cars parked along 10th ...