A team of spruce cone collectors from the White River National Forest has been taking advantage of a prime window to stock up on seeds. Sent to a massive nursery in Nebraska, these seeds are intended ...

Walking the white dog along the road near home, I spotted a Norway spruce cone. The white dog, whose name is Apache (for the place she was born), sniffed and turned away. She — the dog whose favorite ...

Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel ...

I think everyone here in the Seacoast area has noticed the huge amount of white pine cones produced this year. Large quantities litter the ground. Red squirrel middens — piles of cones stripped of ...

White spruce, scientific name Picea glauca, is one of the trees that many people refer to as a pine tree. Although spruce trees are from the same genetic family as pines, they are distinct and ...

On a cold winter’s day, with the sun dipping in and out of the clouds, we walked the neighborhood to admire what many people call pines, trees that are green year-round. Actually, those evergreens ...