A project being proposed by the U.S. Forest Service aims to benefit forest health in a grove of spruce and fir trees north of Silverthorne.

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.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s spruce and fir forests are rebounding but may be no match for higher temperatures. The endangered forest at the heart of America’s most biologically ...

In a recent aerial survey, the U.S. Forest Service observed dead trees in about 1.23 million acres (over 1,900 square miles) of forest in Oregon and Washington, Columbia Insight reported.

Models suggest that the actual amount of fir and spruce acreage damaged by budworm feeding in 2024 is closer to 10 times the 3,000 acres identified in the Maine Forest Service’s aerial surveying ...

The company also cuts some of the timber into lumber, and sells some of its byproduct as firewood. FOREST HEALTH GOALS LaDue also likes what the logging is doing for the spruce-fir forest in the area.

"Considering the amount of spruce fir forest we have? It's it's pretty important. When you look especially up in northern Maine, almost all of your tree is a good proportion of it are going to be ...

Olympic National Forest offices offering the permits: Pacific Ranger District Office in Forks, 437 Tillicum Lane; 360-374-6522. Hood Canal Ranger District Office in Quilcene, 295142 U.S. Highway 101 S ...

A poster child for the Northern Forest, the spruce grouse (Falcipennis canadensis) is one of the rarest birds in Vermont. Not only does the species depend on a relatively small patch of lowland spruce ...

Twenty-two forest stands of the Catskill Mountains, New York, in which spruce (Picea rubens), balsam (Abies balsamea), or both were present in the tree canopy, were sampled by means of the quarter ...