Full-tree skidding usually will expose enough mineral soil for natural seeding unless the ground is frozen ... The eastern spruce budworm is the major insect pest of the spruce-fir forest type. It ...

Community Description: These closed canopy (>75% closure) forests are dominated by red spruce (>60% cover), typically with few other tree species in any of the layers. Fir is often a minor ... cover ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

Catch the colors and miss the crowds at these often-overlooked autumn destinations. Our parks columnists reveals where leaf ...

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 ...

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 ...

Community Description: These closed canopy (>75% closure) forests are dominated by red spruce (>60% cover), typically with few other tree species in any of the layers. Fir is often a minor ... cover ...