If you refer to all evergreen trees as "pines," this indoor program is for you. Using cut tree branches, participants will learn to tell the difference between pines, spruce, firs, cedars and hemlock.

The other day, while out on a walk admiring the cute little pine cones on the Eastern hemlocks in my forest, I was contemplating what it really means to be a pine tree. This time of year conifers ...

One of my favorite winter trees is the Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). A grove of hemlock in winter is striking; the dark green, gracefully spreading branches, weighed down with snow ...

Dry ponderosa pine woodlands are similarly open in structure and contain ... These forests, which contain Douglas fir, coast ...

Many people use the generic term “pine tree” for any kind of evergreen, ... Nature Notes: Spruce, fir or hemlock? By MIKE KAY DNR Forester for Frederick County Dec 9, 2018 Dec 9, 2018; ...

Southern pine beetle, ... Hemlock woolly adelgid infestations were discovered in Cuyahoga and Summit counties in 2008-2009, according to the Ohio Department of Agriculture.

Hemlock, oak, pine, poplar, and maple are popular solid wood baseboards for staining. If you are installing baseboards in great numbers and want an easy installation, choose MDF baseboards since ...

Maine State Entomologist Allison Kanoti assured me that things aren’t that bad yet, but added that the insect is a cause for concern. For starters, the southern pine beetle – which is about ...

The pines near Yakutat arrived there more than 5,000 years earlier than the now-ubiquitous hemlock, and more than 7,000 years earlier than lodgepole pine in the Yukon Territory at the same ...

HALLOWELL — Maine has maple, elm, hemlock, pine and spruce, to name a few. But add to the many varieties of trees two other distinct characteristics: “hazard” trees and “danger” trees.

A “shore-pine” version of lodgepole pine near the town of Yakutat. (Photo by Ned Rozell) YAKUTAT — “There they are,” Ben Gaglioti said, after a short hike off a gravel road leading away ...