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With their city forest accessible via an extensive road and trail network, Montesano residents and visitors can see the ...
Fog rolls over the treetops of a forest of Douglas fir and redwood trees near the Eel River. Photo: Gary Kavanagh/Getty Images. ... Douglas fir trees are an ecologically and economically important ...
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West Coast forest landowners are expected to adapt to climate change by gradually switching from Douglas-fir to other types of trees such as hardwoods and ponderosa pine.
The U.S. Forest Service has maintained similar projects, like the Douglas-fir Heredity Study, for over a century. Some of the trees that were part of the original project, which was planted in ...
A similar crisis for Douglas fir could mean dramatic changes in the Northwest and beyond. About 70 percent of all trees harvested in Oregon and Washington - nearly 4.7 billion board feet (26.6 ...
Woodland Wonder: A House of Douglas Fir in a Forest in Denmark. Story by Annie Quigley • 4mo. N ot much can stop me mid-scroll these days, but it was love at first sight—and okay, ...
According to Portland Parks and Recreation, nearly 50 percent of all trees in Forest Park are bigleaf maples. To put that in perspective, the second ranked species - that old Douglas fir - falls ...
Douglas-fir trees are the most common victims, but stress due to the weather is affecting many tree species, and a variety of different problems are showing up. Flare out ...
A new study finds the West is likely to see slower-growing Douglas fir trees in the future, as temperatures and droughts increase with climate change. Researchers with the University of California ...
A 34-year-old Tumwater man, who is camping out on a platform 100 feet up a Douglas fir, has stopped logging operations in a small section of the Capitol State Forest since Oct. 1. He is trying to ...