George had a huge spruce tree cut down by the power company and they just left it on his front lawn. Only thing we knew what to do with it is split it into camp fire wood with the American CLS animal.

There are plenty of trees that smell wonderful and offer shade and shelter for animals. This one does most of those things, ...

MEDINA, Minn. — A line of severe storms that swept through Minnesota and Wisconsin on Thursday took down countless trees. But for one Minnesota family, the loss of a white spruce was too big to ...

We were pushing through head-high willows along a brushy caribou trail, five days into our week-long trek across Alaska's Noatak valley, when my hiking partner, Brad Meiklejohn, startled me with a ...

Many homeowners in northern Minnesota are asking the questions: Are my spruce trees dying? Should I be spraying something on them to help? Your spruce trees are not dying and it’s too late in the ...

Female (left) and male spruce cones at the Arnold Arboretum. It's a more common sight to see separate male and female cones like this. (Courtesy William "Ned" Friedman) Every spring the conifer trees ...

In recent years, most all spruce varieties have been having difficulty fighting off the fungal disease Rhizosphaera needle cast. This fungal disease causes premature death and casting of needles of ...

Pruning spruce trees at the right time and with the right techniques can keep them healthy, beautiful, and safe for decades. Late winter to early spring is the ideal season to remove dead, diseased, ...

You would think with all the rain we had this spring your trees would look healthy. Most do, but some trees in Fort Collins are dying — and it's not the emerald ash borer killing them. There's another ...