The mission of the USDA Forest Service is to sustain ... We usually choose a balsam fir for our Christmas Tree, but occasionally, we find a pretty spruce tree. Just depends on the year.

As you ride up Tumbleina, Panorama, or Breezeway at Monarch Mountain, check out the trees beside the lift. You’re likely to ...

The U.S. Forest Service and other partner organizations will be undertaking mitigation efforts for spruce beetle-killed trees around the Seward Ranger District of the Chugach National Forest ...

DNR Many homeowners in northern Minnesota are asking the questions: Are my spruce trees dying? Should I be spraying something on them to help?  Your spruce trees are not dying and ...

Red spruce and white pine are commonly found on small hummocks or slightly elevated areas associated with the coniferous swamp. Speckled alder is a common associate of the fringes of this forest ...

Explore the surprising shift in Colorado forests as they begin releasing more carbon than they absorb, affecting climate ...

Few people have seen the spruce grouse, with its have striking plumage: red combs like giant fake eyelashes on top of the ...

It makes no sense to put public money into a forest that is going to be blown down again in 10, 20 or 30 years' time ...

It stripped the needles from fir and spruce trees across most of northern Maine, killing 7 million acres of trees and costing the state’s forest economy hundreds of millions of dollars.

Although Christmas is celebrated on Dec. 25, former Hutchinson resident Myra Kohls has been in the Christmas spirit since March. That’s when U.S. Forest Service employee Mary Nordeen visited ...

We all recognize the tree chosen by Charlie Brown in the popular holiday cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Charlie’s evergreen had a short, crooked form, with wimpy branches and needles that easily ...