Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes, in an effort to learn more about our forests, overcame her fear and climbed a 200-foot ...

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the absurdly long pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these ...

A Scottish Borders community council has called for the halting of a proposed giant tree-planting scheme and ... will be commercial conifer and 72% Sitka spruce. That the planting is ...

Chaplin, New Intl. Assn. of Testing Materials, 1931, Zurich. Wilson, U.S. Dept. of Agr. Bulletin No. 282, March 1932. Unpublished data by F.P.R.L. on Sitka Spruce ...

CHEYENNE – Crews from the city of Cheyenne Urban Forestry Division will begin spraying spruce trees the week of April 7 to prevent ips beetle infestation at several city parks and city-owned ...

A beloved Sitka spruce tree at a popular state park is about to get a big farewell. The “iconic” tree, found at the Yaquina Bay State Recreation Site in Newport, has been declared a hazard ...

This is the perfect place to sit back on a summer day and watch the mellow flow of life in Kodiak. A lush forest of Sitka spruce trees draped in moss covers the territory of Fort Abercrombie State ...

Sgt. Brandon Thurman chats with people during Thursday morning’s Coffee with a Cop at Citizens Bank. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News) This column was updated at 8:55 a.m. March 31 to correct the ...

prompting an inspection that revealed significant decay throughout the tree. "It was a difficult decision to make, especially with this iconic Sitka Spruce that has become a friend to us all over ...

Auckland Council is investigating how a road cone was placed on top of a tall tree in the CBD. The tree in Symonds Street Cemetery stretches multiple meters off the ground well above the nearby ...

and frequently their concern is over commercial Sitka spruce, the fast-growing conifer regarded as the answer to both tree shortages and net zero planting targets. In Langholm, in the Southern ...

Since wood is a natural material, a certain amount of unpredictability is factored into the engineering equations. Sitka spruce trees grow extremely tall—as high as 300 feet—and they’re almost ...