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 ...

The Anchorage Audubon Society is giving away 10,000 white spruce seedlings over the next two weekends in an attempt to replace some of the trees lost to spruce beetle kill in recent years. The Audubon ...

There are plenty of trees that smell wonderful and offer shade and shelter for animals. This one does most of those things, ...

Female (left) and male spruce cones at the Arnold Arboretum. It's a more common sight to see separate male and female cones like this. (Courtesy William "Ned" Friedman) Every spring the conifer trees ...

MEDINA, Minn. — A line of severe storms that swept through Minnesota and Wisconsin on Thursday took down countless trees. But for one Minnesota family, the loss of a white spruce was too big to ...

Gigantic glistening snowflakes gently tumbled from the gray sky to land on thick branches of the spruce outside the picture window. Although I had a long list of things to do, the swirling snowflakes ...

Anywhere else in the world, more trees would be a blessing. But in the far north of Alaska, they’re a reckoning. As the Arctic warms up to four times as fast as the rest of the planet, white spruce ...

Pruning spruce trees at the right time and with the right techniques can keep them healthy, beautiful, and safe for decades. Late winter to early spring is the ideal season to remove dead, diseased, ...