Eastern hemlocks and balsam fir are, literally ... Instead of losing their leaves like deciduous trees do to prevent water loss from their leaves, firs (and most conifers) have thin, needle ...

The cold-loving balsam fir is North America's northernmost fir. Although it has an extensive range in Canada, it grows primarily in the northeastern United States. Its needles are flat with two ...

The easiest way to identify a conifer is by its leaves, which are called needles ... The most aromatic is Balsam fir, which has blue-green needles, but the stiffer branches of Fraser, concolor ...

The spruce budworm is a forest caterpillar that feeds on tree leaves until they are able to ... and they often drop balsam fir seedlings that help repopulate forests. After they hatch, spruce ...

“Much of the balsam fir, and a part of the spruce ... Higgins said, which leaves UPM Blandin in Grand Rapids as the major fir buyer. Because Grand Rapids is a long way from many of the worst ...

Some ticks got a little layer of oak and maple leaves, which is what they like. And some of them got a layer of of balsam fir. The ones that got to live with the balsam fir needles died.

The spruce budworm is eating its way through the balsam fir and spruce that make up much of the Northwoods in what the state's Department of Natural Resources says is now the worst outbreak in ...