In a recent land deal, the SAHC purchased 51 acres on a prominent ridge near the Appalachian Trail in the Highlands of Roan in Mitchell County as a way to protect the vulnerable spruce-fir forest ...

On the Spruce-Fir Nature Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a forest that looks like it belongs in a fairy tale grows on the slopes of Clingmans Dome. Soft green moss covers logs ...

The main goal of the combined project is to “look across administrative boundaries,” but each forest involved will have a slightly different means of restoring its red spruce-fir forests.

The National Park Service released inventory data in January that found that the park’s spruce-fir forest remains in poor ... stewardship at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, told E&E News.

What: Gelinas leads a winter wildlife tracking and tree identification snowshoe trek in the spruce-fir forest at Notchview, in Windsor, a 2-mile trek on the Hume Brook Trail. Learn how to identify ...

A 3,000-acre hot spot of partially denuded spruce-fir forest suggested the once-a-generation outbreak everyone had feared might have begun. The patch of defoliated trees near Little East Lake just ...

The Roaring Fork Valley experienced a spread of Douglas fir, spruce and ... side of Sunnyside Trail, upper Buttermilk and the west side of Castle Creek Valley downvalley from Toklat Lodge among them.

The National Park Service released inventory data in January that found that the park’s spruce-fir forest remains in poor ... stewardship at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, told E&E News.