These needled cone-bearing trees are called conifers. Example of conifer trees include pine, fir, spruce and cedar. Some shrubs which are conifers include juniper, arborvitae and others.

Frequently Asked Questions What's the difference between a fir and a spruce tree? Firs and spruces have many similarities and are often confused with each other, but firs have needles that are ...

Timberland owners want to prevent a repeat of a devastating infestation of the voracious forest insects in the 1970s and 1980s.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland is The Forest City. Our forests are mostly filled with trees like oaks, maples, beeches, and hickories that flower in the spring, provide shade in the summer, and ...

The eastern spruce budworm is a native insect that munches on balsam fir, leaving some 1,100 square miles of trees defoliated ...

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The Douglas fir, also called a Douglas tree, Oregon pine or Douglas spruce, can grow hundreds of feet high — and the oldest of the species can live for over 1,000 years. The Douglas fir was ...

Moose will browse on buds, bark and the tender tips of fir in winter, and deer will employ them for visual cover due to the ...

It stripped the needles from fir and spruce trees across most of northern Maine ... vulnerable to other insects such as bark beetles and wood borers and diseases like root rot, which can cause ...

After they hatch, spruce budworms larvae can defoliate mature trees like balsam fir and ... the fire can move up into the canopy of the woods via balsam fir, kind of like it‘s climbing up ...