Historically, West Virginia’s Monongahela National Forest had a large portion of the red spruce ecosystem which was ...

In the lower portion of the mountain conifer zone, red spruce and balsam fir are both common. However, with increasing elevation, balsam fir tends to dominate. Near timberline, black spruce joins with ...

Red spruce trees are truly remarkable sights to behold. Ancient coniferous giants of the forest with a long history of ...

In Mount Washington, the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation would like to build resiliency into a wooded 275-acre tract donated to the state but not part of the state forest ... That ...

Last week, students and family members from Red Fox Community School participated in their annual Mountain Day hike at Merck ...

Also known as the Canadian spruce or the skunk spruce ... fir grows to heights between 40 and 60 feet throughout its taiga forest range, from central and eastern Canada to a handful of other ...

Spruces are not native in the state except for the tip of Western Maryland, where the rare red spruce grows in the mountains. (Maryland Biodiversity Project notes that prior logging and wildfires ...

Across Canada and abroad, the commercial forest industry has created monoculture conifer plantations of lodgepole pine, ...

white spruce, balsam fire, jack pine, red pine, quaking aspen and paper birch. Boreal species prefer cooler summer averages, ...

Nestled in the heart of Wales, one incredible forest lined with thousands of pine and spruce trees, has visitors so enchanted ...

More than half the forest is mature, coastal red spruce, with a mixture of balsam fir, red maple and white spruce, and it’s home to a diversity of wildlife, including bear, bobcat and moose ...

The forest features a series of walks that take in streams and waterfalls - and it's so pretty some visitors can't believe ...