Another portion of the filbert orchards at Dorris Ranch in Springfield has been removed ahead of a replacement of those trees with a species more resistant to fungal infection. Dorris Ranch reopened ...

Three Turkish filbert trees were recently planted in a new landscape design on the south side of Spokane Falls Boulevard adjacent to Riverfront Park as part of exterior renovations for Wheatland Bank, ...

Courtesy of Willamalane Park and Recreation District In January, the final phase of an orchard restoration project was completed at Dorris Ranch in Springfield, Oregon. Thousands of blight-infected ...

This is part of a weekly series answering "Why is that?" questions about Salem and the Mid-Valley. The question: Why does the Oregon state nut have two names? We have the answer. But first, a little ...

TACOMA – The teeth-rattling roar of a harvester is shattering the peace at Filbert Acres in Puyallup. The commotion erupts from a “hazelnut picker” that farmer Jonathan Nichols pulls through the rows ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — For more than a decade, since the black spots first began appearing on the branches of the filbert trees at the historic Dorris Ranch, officials at the local park district knew the ...

A gray minivan bumps down an unmarked lane one recent morning and pulls into what appears to be a neatly groomed, dormant orchard. On the sloping, one-acre plot stand 500 filbert trees, bushes really, ...

TROY, N.Y. >> The Capital Roots and Urban Forestry Advisory Board, along with Mayor Patrick Madden, planted a Turkish Filbert tree on Federal Street in Troy on Friday morning to highlight the ...

Even the most practical-minded, fleece-pelted Oregonian could be persuaded that filbert sounds, to be kind, a little stodgy. As names go, perhaps it's better suited to a mild-mannered, bespectacled ...