How spruce budworms are coming for Maine’s greatest weapon against climate change, and what is being done. Plus: ways to get ...

Picea rubens habitat ranges from maritime Canada south and down the Appalachians to western North Carolina. Red spruce is the provincial tree of Nova Scotia. Red spruce does best on moist ...

Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future ones, while pines acclimatized to wet periods were more vulnerable.

Note: Norway spruce is a common non-native European tree that has been extensively planted and has naturalized in North America. They are primarily found in areas of the Northeast, the Great Lake ...

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The Forestry Commission has issued a UK-wide alert for the tree pest Ips typographus, which is known as the eight-toothed ...

Folks are working to prevent the Spruce budworm population from getting out of control in our Northern Maine Woods.

Timberland owners want to prevent a repeat of a devastating infestation of the voracious forest insects in the 1970s and 1980s.

In nature, you’ll see several types of spruce trees (Picea spp.) that are beautiful, rugged evergreens capable of lasting several centuries and withstanding extreme winter cold. They are amongst ...

To get one, go to the subscriptions page. A spruce budworm outbreak has plagued Maine’s northern borders for nearly two decades, with the tree-killing moths making sporadic incursions from ...

They can kill a tree in two to three years and turn ... in northern Minnesota since 1954. In 2023, the spruce budworm outbreak in northern Minnesota impacted roughly 665,000 acres, DNR officials ...

University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an ...