A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

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Dan Henry, who’s now retired, shrewdly planted a couple of Norway spruce saplings in Highland Park just in case city hall ever found itself in a Christmas-tree-finding pinch.

If you’ve ever wandered through a deep valley and heard the wind shriek, you know the feeling: goosebumps, awe, and sometimes ...

In a new study published in Functional Ecology, researchers focused on why spruce trees produce such a complex mixture of defense substances in their sticky resin.

In a new study, researchers focused on why spruce trees produce such a complex mixture of defense substances in their sticky resin. Several hypotheses already existed to explain this phenomenon.

Have you ever examined timber floorboards and pondered why they look the way they do? Perhaps you admired the super-fine ...

The Norway spruce, the "bread tree" of the timber industry for decades, has been weakened by years of drought and high temperatures. In combination with monoculture cultivation, the spruce has ...

Walking along a wooded trail in any corner of the province, you might see the odd tree that stretches higher than others, and has most of its branches near the top, typically spiralled and bent.Those ...

The Vermont Big Tree Program, operated by the Vermont Urban and Community Forestry Program, has identified the five tallest ...

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Restoring Earth Connection has just completed a five-month-long project that catalogued the largest trees in Olympia.