White spruce, scientific name Picea glauca, is one of the trees that many people refer to as a pine tree. Although spruce trees are from the same genetic family as pines, they are distinct and ...

In this episode of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces the White Spruce. This species is found in the North Woods of Northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

DONNELLY — When I look from my living room window I see horses, dogs and lots of spruce trees. The trees that circle our properties near Donnelly and Paxson are primarily black spruce (picea marianna) ...

As Alaska warms, white spruce trees are withering and dying throughout the state's Interior region, scientists have found from years of field studies. But that species of tree, for decades prized as ...

One of the dominant tree species in our Colorado Rocky Mountain subalpine forests is the spruce. A spruce is an evergreen tree or conifer belonging to genus Picea and there are about 35 species ...

Genetic analysis of white spruce trees at sites across North America suggest that that species endured the harsh climate of Alaska throughout the last ice age, a notion that scientists have debated ...

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Though the U.S. Department of Agriculture has recently warned of big changes in store for the nation’s forests because of global warming, a trio of National Park Service scientists who’ve completed an ...

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 color ...