“Threads of the Tongass” is a series of stories that explore how lives in Southeast Alaska are interwoven with the Tongass ...

To manufacture thousands of airplanes for its World War I allies, the United States would fell acres of spruce.

Just as the 1980s economic crash resulted in major UK timber exports, the current windblow crisis is pushing logs further ...

Truth is, we don’t know how the Tree of Life will fall, and we don’t know when. It could happen in five years, in 40 years, ...

Annual cold snaps have kept some invasive tree pests in check, but outbreaks could become more common with warming ...

Smoking is an excellent food preservation method but also a source of contamination of foodstuffs with carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Herein we investigated the influence of ...

A new state-certified lumber grading program is turning Alaska’s local timber into a legal, reliable building material — and ...

Swan Lake is located in the Tongass National Forest, within the U.S. Forest Service’s Petersburg district in Alaska. At 1,525 ...

With arms that once flexed and reached to the sky, the limbs of the beloved Sitka spruce “muscle tree” at the entrance of ...

Learn more about Spruce Street School here - See an overview of the school, get student population data, enrollment information, test scores and more.

A general mathematical model for the chemical pulping of wood including coupled chemical reactions and diffusion limitations in anisotropic wood chips was developed. The model, which consists of ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry is assessing damage done by the spruce aphid along the Oregon Coast after an outbreak in Yachats earlier in 2025.