It’s difficult to see the forest for the trees, especially when most of those trees are conifers. After all, conifers all tend to look the same, especially from a distance. People don’t come from all ...

This winter’s freezes and thaws affected plenty of plants, but one reader experienced some surprising results. Just after the last freeze, she asked about a curious occurrence she noticed concerning ...

Lush, sprawling forests, trails littered with cones and the clean, waxy smell of evergreens in the crisp morning air: Colorado. This state is known for its towering lodgepole pines, pale blue spruces ...

Surrey-based arborist Wyatt Sjodin says climate change is helping introduce pests such as the Douglas fir cone moth to the West Coast | Rob Kruyt As an arborist who’s been working in B.C. for the past ...

COLLBRAN — Up close, the grayish, topsy-turvy surface of Colorado’s largest recorded rock avalanche yields small surprises that hint at the land as it was before: snail shells, Douglas fir cones, ...

Loveland’s tree streets include 22 streets named for trees in the Pine Family. The family includes 234 species worldwide and they separate into nine groups: cedars, Douglas-firs, firs, golden-larch, ...

The Douglas fir is the state tree of Oregon but it has Scottish (Perthshire) roots taking its name from David Douglas, a botanist from Scone. By Fiona Bird Mother of six usually found foraging in the ...