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.

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. The Lakeview Project is located west of Colorado Highway ...

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.

A sign at the trail entrance notes that ... Large, contiguous forest tracts with a heavy concentration of balsam fir and spruce are at the greatest risk, she wrote, adding, “An outbreak would ...

Unlike forest pests like the emerald ash ... It doesn’t even kill all spruce or fir. The last outbreak left a trail of dead trees behind for woodpeckers, he said. It created dense young balsam ...

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 ...

How spruce budworms are coming for Maine’s greatest weapon against climate change, and what is being done. Plus: ways to get ...

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.