While Douglas firs also go by Douglas tree, Oregon pine, and Douglas spruce, this tree is not a fir, pine, or spruce. This can make identification challenging when you look at the needle formation ...

The Douglas fir, the state tree of Oregon, can grow incredibly tall and live impressively long. The oldest Douglas fir trees have lived to be over 1,000 years old. Fox News Media ...

Josh Farley is a reporter covering the military, and the occasional Douglas-fir tree, for the Kitsap Sun. He can be reached at 360-792-9227, [email protected] or on Twitter at @joshfarley.

About 70 percent of all trees harvested in Oregon and Washington - nearly 4.7 billion board feet (26.6 million cubic meters) - are Douglas fir.

"In 1984, these Douglas fir all but shut down," Black says. "In fact, their growth was so slow that it wasn't even forming wood around the whole circumference of the tree." ...

An enormous Douglas fir tree — more than 100 feet tall and possibly 300 years old — has toppled to the ground near a trail high in the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson. The towering tree ...