On Verona Island, at the end of a dirt road, a couple dozen wizened apple trees stand sentry in a grassy field sloping down to the river. To the untrained eye, it's a bunch of old trees. To apple ...

Editor’s note: Part of this story was updated to reflect that a tree in the county that dated back to 1554 was sampled about a decade ago. It was not clear from the reporting whether the tree is still ...

Cortez, Colorado, started looking for an apple variety that had been common in Montezuma County in the early 1900s. Jude and ...

From cottonwoods and apple trees to a pine older than the state, Boulder County’s trees hold some of the area’s history — going back hundreds of years. In an area full of forest land, nailing down the ...