Then, landowners can start to consider planting other species of trees. Foresters don’t want to eliminate balsam fir — or even budworms — altogether. Instead, they want more of a variation ...

Planted last spring but burned in last month's Camp House Fire, The Nature Conservancy returned to a plot of land along ...

Rolf Peterson, who lives in the Upper Peninsula, has helped to demystify a species that is frequently misunderstood.

Examples of fire-smart shrubs include Saskatoon serviceberry, false indigo, Aronia chokeberry, Redosier dogwood, beaked hazelnut, Cotinus smokebush, Philadelphus mock orange, potentilla, Nanking ...

As the state's forests become weakened and stressed, they become more susceptible to insects and disease — even some that, at ...

Thinning promotes healthy and vigorous trees. Harvest a stand’s balsam fir and aspen when they ... aspen and paper birch. Balsam fir is often found mixed with a wide variety of other species, ...

The fire is being fueled by thick duff and dead balsam fir trees. If you've been to the BWCA ... Aerial monitors are continuing to identify hotspots and communicate with ground crews. Wildland Fire ...

The eastern spruce budworm is a native insect that munches on balsam fir, leaving some 1,100 square miles of trees defoliated or dead last year, the most in the region since 1961. A spruce budworm ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) is the most widely distributed ...

several animals are hidden somewhere in the tree. So, if you think you are a genius and have eagle vision, then identify the number of animals in these trees in just 13 seconds. So, are you ready ...