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, ...

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 ...

And on the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona the threatened Apache trout is finding a new home, and the forest is now managed ... Douglas fir, blue spruce, Engelmann spruce, and white fir.

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 ...

The U.S. Forest Service will be selling permits Thursday ... Species available include sbalpine fir, Engelmann spruce, ...

But that’s exactly what Erik Pauze does at Rockefeller Center, where he’s toiled for four decades — the 58-year-old Long Islander told The Post he scouts “easily” 100 trees in a six-state radius each ...

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

Nov. 4, 2024 — A new study details how climate change transforms coastal wetlands in North Carolina from forest to marshland ... the animal can cover more ground than deer and is sensitive ...

The life cycle of a leaf is pretty magical,” said Andy Finton, a forest ecologist with the Nature Conservancy in ...

The gap was produced by the demise of an enormous spruce ... out some balsam fir seedlings that moose have nibbled on. We spend several more hours snowshoeing through the forest, mostly off ...

We've scoured the globe and come up with, what we think is, the definitive ranking of the world's most beautiful forests.