and shortleaf black spruce is a wide-ranging, abundant conifer that bounds the northern limit of trees in North America. Its wood is yellow-white in color, relatively light in weight, and strong.

These trees (Picea glauca) grow well in protected sites and require well-draining soil. The Black Hills Spruce variety (P. glauca var. densata) offers blue foliage. These trees grow to 50 feet ...

The Timonens' operations focus on areas that were logged for black spruce trees 12-25 years ago. "We're studying aerial photos," Sean Timonen said. "When our season wraps up, we canvas a number of ...

In retrospect, this wasn’t true. Forestry experts understand that a monoculture of trees — like the black spruce saplings we were planting, six feet apart in neat rows — has made wildfires ...