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 ...

In most Chicago suburbs, you can’t drive a block without seeing a spruce tree. Norway spruce, blue spruce and white spruce are among the most popular trees in the area, prized for their winter color ...

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Colorado Blue Spruce trees have long been landscape favorites because of their stately shape and unusual color. Picea pungens has a symmetrical form that can grow from 30 to 60 feet tall with a 10 to ...

People who drive along Randall Road in Elgin have most likely already seen the Colorado blue spruce that Elgin was putting up as its holiday tree on Thursday along DuPage Court downtown. Since the ...

Back 100 years ago, the Norway spruce (picea abies) evergreen tree was popular and over-planted. For example, our 1-acre property had nine of these large trees when we moved here in 1960. While they ...

Do you know why the pine tree didn’t get a Christmas present? Because it was knotty. Speaking of evergreen humor, did you hear about the guy who drove through a forest and noticed lumberjacks sawing ...

Colorado Blue Spruce or Picea pungens is one of the most popular evergreens throughout our area. But is its natural habitat in Colorado? Blue Spruce is found in Colorado and in southwest range of ...

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officer Shane Zavodnik examines an illegally cut spruce tree while standing in a frozen swamp in late November, on private property near Eveleth.