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Government scientists are using drones and sniffer dogs to fight back against an eight-toothed Christmas-tree eating beetle.
The Albert family's 71-foot Norway spruce is on its way from West Stockbridge to New York City. Here's how the giant tree was felled in front of hundreds of onlookers ...
Drones are sent up to survey hundreds of hectares of forest, looking for signs of infestation from the sky - as the beetle takes hold, the upper canopy of the tree cannot be fed nutrients and water, ...
A giant Norway spruce that will serve as this year's Rockefeller Christmas tree was en route to New York City on Thursday from its Massachusetts hometown.
After months of extensive testing at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composite Center, the Norway spruce earned certification for commercial and residential buildings, making it the ...
Back 100 years ago, the Norway spruce (picea abies) evergreen tree was popular and over-planted. For example, our 1-acre property had nine of these large trees when we moved here in 1960. While ...
Maine’s largest Norway spruce lives on a farm in Lewiston The tree grows at Old Dyer Farm, though doesn't make the record books because it's not indigenous to Maine.
In most Chicago suburbs, you can’t drive a block without seeing a spruce tree. Norway spruce, blue spruce and white spruce are among the most popular trees in the area, prized for their winter ...
New Jersey and New York have an abundance of local tree farms where you can cut down your own Christmas tree this holiday season.
A 63-foot (19-meter) Norway spruce from the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia is on its way to the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol to be the Christmas tree for 2023.Snow fell on the crew members ...