spruce needles are four-sided and some species bear a small sharp point at the tip. Fir trees have a smooth silvery gray bark with small dark blotches; spruce trees have gray-brown or reddish ...

The first U.S. newspaper printed on paper made from trees was an edition of the Boston Weekly Journal published in January ...

Tree variety: Common artificial Christmas tree types include fir, spruce, and pine ... Some trees have variations in needle color or faux bark to make them look more life-like.

Soredia were cultivated in fir-spruce forests in heavily polluted and unpolluted areas. In both areas, soredia development was examined on fir bark collected from both the heavily polluted and ...

Ever wonder how Rockefeller Center picks its tree? Or where the tree's lights are stored during the offseason? Or if the tree ...

Engelmann spruce, and white fir. Where Turkey Creek joins the main stream, the signs of elk are everywhere—gnawed bark on wind-felled aspen, droppings in the snow—and ancient beaver dams ...

The Ips typographus, or larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle, is an invasive species Planting of new spruce trees is being banned in parts of East Anglia and South East England as part ...

For decades, the traditional Christmas tree in Britain has been the Norway spruce. But in recent years, sales of ‘non-drop’ varieties such as the Nordmann fir, Fraser fir and blue spruce have ...

Fraser fir is a beloved type of Christmas tree that also offers ... and eventually death of the tree. Other pests, such as ...

Nothing will fill you with Christmas cheer faster than the enticing aromas of these festive essential oils blends!

To date, the oldest CMT recorded is a western redcedar that had its bark removed in AD 1415. Until relatively recently, Douglas-fir CMTs were not known to archaeologists. In part, this is because old ...

Evergreen trees and shrubs, including white pine, red pine, Austrian pine, Norway spruce, white spruce, arborvitae, mugo pine, balsam fir and more, need water until the ground freezes. Given the ...