Grizzly bear Tim enjoys his tree enrichment at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. More than 900 Balsam fir trees used during Brookfield Zoo Chicago’s Holiday Magic event are repurposed every year as mulch, ...

Few people have seen the spruce grouse, with its have striking plumage: red combs like giant fake eyelashes on top of the ...

The elusive yet bold spruce grouse is a little-known N.H. inhabitant that relies on forests that are specifically adapted to ...

Christina Lavoie, president of the Forest Nursery ­Association of B.C., with western red cedar seedlings at the Western Forest Products Saanich Forestry Centre in Saanichton. The province’s ...

For many of us, starting our own seedlings is one of the many highlights of gardening. It’s a great way to kick off the garden season well before we can play in the dirt outside. But if you start ...

artificial tree from several top retailers to light up what’s left of 2023. The TikTok famous LED Grand Duchess Balsam Fir is, unsurprisingly, still out of stock at Home Depot.

In a new study published in the journal Global Change Biology, Simard and her UBC colleagues took three-year-old interior Douglas fir seedlings from locations in southern B.C. and planted them ...

B.C. is home to the northernmost range of the interior douglas fir ecosystem. A new study has found old Douglas firs act as a 'blanket' guarding seedlings against drought, sun and frost.

That is, unless, they get a little help from people. In a new study published in the journal Global Change Biology, Simard and her UBC colleagues took three-year-old interior Douglas fir seedlings ...