Ryan Murphy and Ben Held, co-investigators on the U’s disease-resistant elm selection and reintroduction program, want to ...

The eastern spruce budworm is a native insect that munches on balsam fir, leaving some 1,100 square miles of trees defoliated ...

The spruce budworm is a native forest insect causing concern across Minnesota’s coniferous forests since at least 1954.

While Tallamy’s work shows that oaks are the best trees in Minnesota for fostering life ... native shade-tolerant plants to get through the winter and complete each stage of their life cycle.

Jillian Patrie | University of Minnesota Yard and Garden Extension ...

Jillian Patrie | University of Minnesota Yard and Garden Extension ...

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 ...

Minnesota may be known ... especially after the winter thaw. You can then hike along the river amongst a forest of oak, elm, and cottonwood trees and through fields of spring wildflowers.