I wanted to see if Balsam Hill's expensive trees lived up to the high price tag. I tested the Fraser Fir, which is about in the middle, cost-wise. It was easily the most convincing fake tree I put ...

The native insect that feasts on the short-lived conifers has exploded throughout much of the state’s northeastern region at ...

However, Christmas trees are classified as softwoods, and are typically species such as balsam fir, Douglas fir, Fraser fir, noble fir, Scotch pine, Virginia pine and white pine. These softwoods ...

The work was made possible through the Arrowhead Forest Partnership, an agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and five northeastern Minnesota ...

Ernest A. Korankye, Rajasekaran R. Lada, Samuel K. Asiedu and Claude Caldwell. 2018. Mechanical shaking and bailing of balsam fir trees influence postharvest needle senescence and abscission. American ...

More than anything, he was drawn to the site by the trees. “There was this beautiful thicket of balsam fir. It looked like a Christmas tree farm, so that’s where I built,” said Anderson ...

The native insect that feasts on the short-lived conifers has exploded throughout much of the state’s northeastern region at a level not seen since 1961 The eastern spruce budworm — a native ...