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 ...

North America's fir trees include the Christmas varieties (balsam, Fraser, Douglas, noble) and the lesser-known white fir. Learn how to identify them.

Confires like spruce, hemlock, and fir can easily be identified as separate genera, then as individual species, by observing their needles and cones.

It’s difficult to see the forest for the trees, especially when most of those trees are conifers. After all, conifers all tend to look the same, especially from a distance. People don’t come from all ...

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 ...

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

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 endemic ...

Showers of Doug fir cones not unusual in winter. ... Douglas squirrels (the little red ones) are heavily dependent on Douglas fir seeds, which they gather continuously to eat and stash.

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 ...