The mixture of red and black spruce ... combination bog-swamp-conifer forest contains almost the exact suite of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants as a similar habitat up in Canada or the ...

Underneath a distant, swampy expanse of spruce forests and rivers in Northern ... commodities are buried under a vast ecosystem of peat bogs, known by local groups as “the breathing lands ...

of Energy) The boreal forest is Canada's first line of defence against ... The 8.1 hectare SPRUCE research site can be found in the black spruce bog forest 40 kilometres north of Grand Rapids ...

But this year, suppliers from Canada haven’t been able to sell ... to prevent damage to sensitive spruce bogs. The harvest of spruce tips have grown immensely in recent years as arrangements ...

The scrawny black spruce trees that push up through the peat bogs of Canada's boreal forest are valuable indicators of fire risk, say researchers who studied a burned-over area just outside Fort ...

IN the autumn of 1930, serious defoliation of some 2,000 square miles of spruce forest by a species of sawfly was discovered in the interior of the Gaspé Peninsula, Province of Quebec ...

Imperiled or vulnerable across much of its range, the elfin had been known only from limited parts of the northeastern US and eastern Canada, but not Vermont. Threats include global warming, ...

This top-notch sporting facility – whose name springs from the surrounding spruce trees – hosts some of Canada's most prominent horseback riding events. Here, talented jockeys compete for ...

Picea rubens habitat ranges from maritime Canada south and down the ... planted ten to 15 feet apart. Black spruce (Picea mariana), also called bog spruce, swamp spruce, and shortleaf black ...

A metal and polycarbonate walkway stretches over the peat bog, connecting the various enclosures in the SPRUCE experiment. The Marcell Experimental Forest, a 2,819-acre research site located about ...