North America's fir trees include the Christmas varieties (balsam, Fraser, Douglas, noble) and the lesser-known white fir. Learn how to identify them.

Did you know that many parts of common trees like the leaves, flowers and needles are edible? Here's a look at different species, including some that you should avoid at all costs.

The European Silver Fir is an old-school choice for Christmas trees in Europe. If you have a lot of large ornaments that need space to shine, this tree species features widely-spaced branches that ...

Confires like spruce, hemlock, and fir can easily be identified as separate genera, then as individual species, by observing their needles and cones.

I found one silver fir on Silver Fir Avenue but no firs of any kind on Silver Fir Court or Silver Fir Drive. Three streets, three-fourths of a mile and 24 minutes for one tree.

The amount of forest with problems is only a small fraction of the overall 22 million acres state officials looked at, but it ...

KENTON — 48,500 native conifer seedlings have been planted around 150 acres in late June by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) ...

The tree-lighting ceremony is scheduled for Friday, November 21, during the 41st Annual Silver Bells in the City celebration in downtown Lansing. The deadline for tree nominations is Monday ...

To fully understand the journey of the tree, you have to go back more than five decades. This year’s silver fir tree was first planted at Drysdale’s Tree Farm in Egbert, Ont., 50 years ago.

North Carolina's Fraser fir is a popular Christmas tree, but it's under threat from disease and scientists are racing to try to save it.

While the silver fir beetle only damaged 2,900 acres of Washington forests last year, up from just 500 acres in 2023, Department of Natural Resources entomologist Glenn Kohler said that beetle’s ...

This year’s silver fir tree was first planted at Drysdale’s Tree Farm in Egbert, Ont., 50 years ago. All of this time the tree has been growing and waiting for its turn to be the most prized on the ...