Lush, sprawling forests, trails littered with cones and the clean, waxy smell of evergreens in the crisp morning air: Colorado. This state is known for its towering lodgepole pines, pale blue spruces ...

The blue-green needles are four-sided ... Because they stay intact, Douglas fir cones can often be found (in copious quantities) in and under the tree. This unique cone has a three-pointed ...

There are two varieties of Douglas fir trees, the coastal Douglas fir and the Rocky Mountain Douglas fir that we have in Colorado. The cones are one of the most notable characteristics unique to the ...

If the needles and twig fit this description you will probably have either a Douglas Fir, bald cypress or hemlock tree. However, further observations of the shape, size, and growth of the cones ...

From the Northwest came, instead, three towering shafts of Douglas Fir ... creature were knocking on the great Fir trunks. This is the call of the blue grouse, for which the mountain is named ...

His beard is ash gray, eyes emerald blue, glasses wire-frame ... The sugar pine doesn’t have the art-deco cones of a Douglas fir, but its pine cones are impressive — as tall as a human ...

Pseudotsuga macrocarpa is commonly called “big cone spruce” or “big cone Douglas fir,” though both names are deceiving; it is neither a spruce nor a fir, but a unique conifer. It is ...

Higher temperatures are increasingly stressing cooler-preferring species, which includes Douglas fir, Fraser fir, larch, and concolor fir in addition to blue spruce. Combine that with the extreme ...

are heavily dependent on Douglas fir seeds, which they gather continuously to eat and stash. Douglas squirrels will also harvest green cones from Sitka spruces in late summer or autumn ...

Within a few days, a blue spruce was transformed from a bright and handsome tree to a sad, brown structure, retaining only its oldest needles on its lower branches. A horde of Douglas-fir tussock ...