Blue spruce (Picea pungens f. glauca), also called Colorado blue spruce, is a beautiful tree with blue-gray needles. Being colorful and relatively drought tolerant, it’s a favorite of many homeowners ...

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officer Shane Zavodnik examines an illegally cut spruce tree while standing in a frozen swamp in late November, on private property near Eveleth.

We were pushing through head-high willows along a brushy caribou trail, five days into our week-long trek across Alaska’s Noatak valley, when my hiking partner, Brad Meiklejohn, startled me with a ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Colorado blue spruce is not native to Indiana (no spruce is!), and it often suffers from environmental stresses such as drought, excessive heat, humidity, and compacted or ...

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An international study has revealed spruce trees not only respond to a solar eclipse but actively anticipate it by synchronizing their bioelectrical signals hours in advance into a cohesive, ...

One of the reasons Glen Hemingson bought his home in Anchorage’s Fairview neighborhood was the thick stand of spruce trees in the front yard. “It has the feeling of a forest,” Hemingson said. But soon ...

It may not be as good as saving the whole tree, but it appears likely the state will try to save at least a part of the beloved Sitka spruce fondly dubbed by locals as the Yaquina Bay Muscle Tree. “I ...

The City of Kodiak will remove the six or seven Wamwik Park spruce trees to make way for a water line to be installed, the ...