New York released more than 1,000 spruce grouse in the northern Adirondacks over 13 years to save the endangered bird.

Spruce bark beetles don’t just tolerate their host tree’s chemical defenses—they actively reshape them into stronger ...

New Hampshire has two species of grouse. You’re probably familiar with the ruffed grouse; it lives in woodlands throughout the state. But there’s another grouse found in the Granite State that few ...

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 ...

A potentially devastating disease epidemic is attacking our region's most common evergreen trees. Colorado, Black Hills and Norway spruce have long been planted in yards and shelterbelts. Most of the ...

On Dec. 11, Jan Myers and I made our annual holiday pilgrimage to the Turnagain Arm Trail at Anchorage’s southern fringes, to place ornaments upon two wild spruce trees. Ours is not a long journey, ...