Wildfires are burning through thousands of acres of forest in Northern Minnesota, damaging buildings and forcing residents to ...

Three wildfires in northern Minnesota’s Arrowhead region have grown quickly from a few hundred acres to several thousand, ...

The spruce budworm is a native forest insect causing concern across Minnesota’s coniferous forests since at least 1954.

However, with increasing elevation, balsam fir tends to dominate. Near timberline, black spruce joins with balsam in a dwarfed and contorted forest know as the “Krummholz.” Paper birch, yellow birch, ...

The devastating wildfires that are consuming thousands of acres of forest in northern Minnesota have been exacerbated by the ...

IT REALLY HAS DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON BALSAM FIR AND BALSAM FIR ... A LOT OF SPRUCE BUDWORM KILL BECAUSE SOME OF THE MARKETS IN FOREST INDUSTRY IN MINNESOTA THAT HAVE USED BALSAM FIR HAVE MOVED ...

Wildfire tracking service Watch Duty is now estimating the total amount of forest burned by the three major fires in northern ...

Large, contiguous forest tracts with a heavy concentration of balsam fir and spruce are at the greatest risk, she wrote, adding, “An outbreak would not be of concern in southern Maine’s mixed ...

MacDonald M.T. and Rajasekaran L.R. 2018. Seasonal changes in soil and tissue nutrition in balsam fir and influence on postharvest needle abscission. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 33; ...