It takes years to grow and months to shape up Christmas trees before farms, like Butler’s Orchard in Germantown, Maryland, can sell them.

A hundred years ago, Maryland’s first state forester, Fred Besley, issued a challenge to residents: Go out in the woods and find the biggest tree you can. Then collect its measurements and send them ...

FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiary Potomac Edison is conducting tree trimming and other vegetation management work in communities across its Maryland service area as part of its ongoing efforts to help ...