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Spruce tree mitigation set for Seward district of Chugach National Forest
The U.S. Forest Service and other partner organizations will be undertaking mitigation efforts for spruce beetle-killed trees around the Seward Ranger District of the Chugach National Forest ...
Star Tribune21d
It’s the spruce top cutter vs. the game warden in a ‘head-butting battle’ in North Woods
A stand of black spruce trees surrounds a handful of tamaracks glowing yellow in the fall in the Cloquet Valley State Forest. Demand for the tops of Minnesota's black spruce as Christmas ...
Protected areas provide habitat for threatened lynx, but wildfire poses risks
John Squires and Lucretia Olson, researchers with the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, worked with ...
Portland Press Herald24d
Bill before Congress would give Maine $14 million to fight spruce budworm
It stripped the needles from fir and spruce trees across most of northern Maine, killing 7 million acres of trees and costing the state’s forest products industry hundreds of millions of dollars.
Park Rapids Enterprise3d
Support Minnesota’s forests by collecting black spruce and jack pine cones
Drop-off stations accepting jack pine and black spruce cones include Bemidji and the Badoura State Forest Nursery near Akeley ...
Phys.org24d
25 years after Lothar: How the windstorm rebuilt Swiss forests
If important forest functions need to be protected, damaged spruce trees need to be removed as quickly as possible, especially in low-lying areas. As soon as the weather warms up, bark beetles ...