In this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee takes us through the different characteristics of coniferous trees found here in Indiana, particularly their foliage and the ...

Christmas trees—and conifers in general—have made some surprising cameos throughout U.S. history, author Trent Preszler ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Like any kind of tree, the conifer is susceptible to a number of diseases ...

We buy live Christmas trees with the best of intentions, excited about the possibilities of decorating our living rooms for the holidays and our gardens for evermore. Sometimes, that's just the ...

Eurasian spruce bark beetles (Ips typographus) burrow into the bark of Norway spruce (Picea abies) trees where they mate and lay their eggs. Major outbreaks in Europe have decimated millions of ...