Wildfires are flaring up across Alaska due to lightning and dry weather, threatening cabins and prompting evacuations. Crews ...

Wildfire activity is surging in Interior Alaska, with major responses to the Lush Fire near Rampart and the Nelchina Glacier ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) has launched an investigation into a Sitka spruce aphid outbreak around Yachats on ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry is assessing damage done by the spruce aphid along the Oregon Coast after an outbreak in ...

On a former military base in Galena, Alaska, a school that houses about 200 high school students teaches sustainability among ...

A spruce aphid outbreak detected earlier this year around Yachats on the central Oregon coast is prompting ODF to assess the ...

Its wood is yellow-white in color ... Throughout most of its range from northern California to Alaska, Sitka spruce is associated with western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) in dense stands where ...

But in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial ... cloaked on both sides by hemlock and spruce was left behind. Over the past century, landslides in the state have periodically ...

A bile of guilt arose in my throat as I saw their yellow pages and I lamented for ... Therefore, wild species of spruce, walks on daunting hill pathways, and unpredictable weather of mountains ...

Spruce are a keystone of one of ... particularly in the north.” In southeast Alaska, for example, warmer winters are killing yellow cedar trees, whose shallow roots require snowpack to insulate ...

Alaska cedar is a cypress (Cupressaceae ... types (10): Pin Cherry (Society of American Foresters Type 17), Red Spruce-Yellow Birch (Type 30), Red Spruce (Type 32), and Red Spruce-Fraser Fir ...

It was a cloudy July afternoon in Alaska's Kobuk Valley National Park ... The second night, we camped among spindly spruce trees on the gravel shore across from where Anaktok Creek, a toxic ...