A logging and clearcutting project in the Bitterroot National Forest will impact the environment and cost taxpayers $4.2 ...

However, with increasing elevation, balsam fir tends to dominate. Near timberline, black spruce joins with balsam in ... Beneath the deep shade of the boreal conifers, the forest floor is cold, dark, ...

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

Example of conifer trees include pine, fir, spruce and cedar ... toward the inside of the tree or shrub’s canopy. Look at the ground under these plants and you will find a pile of old needles ...

They have evolved on the Madrean Sky Island and are now, in effect, stranded there. The cool and shaded environment provides ...

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

The original intent was to compare forest management types between seedling-sapling ... that contained yellow birch, red maple, red spruce, balsam fir, and eastern hemlock, associated with sugar maple ...

Sweeney has previously aided in the conservation of land across the Pisgah National Forest and in the Roan Highlands. High-elevation spruce-fir forests are some of the most endangered ecosystems ...

A small wildfire is burning at Wood Lake within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). On Tuesday, Sept. 10, at ...

They are tree-dwelling creatures that can jump through rainforest understory up to 66 feet from ground level. However ... Meet the smallest spider we know: the spruce-fir moss spider, endemic to the ...

These needled cone-bearing trees are called conifers. Example of conifer trees include pine, fir, spruce and cedar. Some shrubs which are conifers include juniper, arborvitae and others.