This new project by U.S. Forest Service is a culmination of multiple groups efforts, including the Central Appalachian Spruce Restoration Initiative (CASRI) and the Southern Appalachian Spruce ...

While not toxic to people or most animals, pesticides to protect spruce and fir trees against budworm could also hurt the ...

An international study has revealed spruce trees not only respond to a ... bioelectrical signals hours in advance into a cohesive, forest-wide phenomenon. The discovery, published in the journal ...

A 3,000-acre hot spot of partially denuded spruce-fir forest suggested the once-a-generation outbreak everyone had feared might have begun. The patch of defoliated trees near Little East Lake just ...

How spruce budworms are coming for Maine’s greatest weapon against climate change, and what is being done. Plus: ways to get ...

The name speaks for itself — Sitka Spruce Park on Amaknak Island has dozens of spruce trees, creating a rare forest-like sanctuary. Regional lands are known for their tundra valleys filled with ...

in 2021. The spruce budworm is a forest caterpillar that feeds on tree leaves until they are able to transform into a moth. Those moths lay around 10 egg masses, which can hold more than one ...

This is a forest type map of Eastern Spruce-Fir. The forest cover type illustrated on this map is determined by where it most frequently occurs within its native range and at the frequency of ...

The predominantly Sitka spruce forest is now on sale after being held by the same family since the 1970s. Norwood also includes more than 12 miles of a 'high-quality internal forest road network ...

A ground breaking international study has revealed spruce trees not only respond to a solar eclipse but actively anticipate it by synchronising their bioelectrical signals hours in advance into a ...