Leaves are falling and Thanksgiving is less than three weeks away, which means the season for cutting your own Christmas tree on public lands is fast approaching. If that’s a family tradition for you, ...

As any aspiring lumberjack knows, most of the time it's illegal to wander into a national forest to chop down a tree. This month, however, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is all for it—provided you ...

Make a once-in-a-lifetime memory or start a tradition: March your family into the woods and cut down your very own Christmas tree. Michigan’s three national forests will all soon be open for Christmas ...