This second article focuses on the role of timber operators in Southeast Alaska. The final article will feature Southeast Alaska perspectives that take a holistic approach to federal, state, city, and ...

How wood helped fight two wars, and the timber women who also answered the call. WWI transformed the Northwest timber industry as the U.S. military took charge to ensure the supply of Sitka spruce ...

Englemann spruce, blue spruce, and Sitka spruce are native to the western states and Canadian provinces. ... (spruce, pine, fir) and whitewood. Spruce wood is used for many purposes, ...

More than a dozen spruce trees, offspring of the original 1800s plantings, stand at Sitka Spruce Park. (Sofia Stuart-Rasi / KUCB) ... mostly, and then also to burn for wood,” Mason said.

Artist Elizabeth Palmer of Salem would like to use wood from the Sitka spruce to make tree ring prints, something she does with trees felled by storms or logging. Courtesy of Elizabeth Palmer.

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

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a nine-ply section of Sitka ...

The scientists chose Canadian Sitka spruce wood from a classic racing yacht's mast. This wood is thought to have been harvested in the 1940s for aircraft construction during WWII.

The aphid, known scientifically as Elatobium abietinum, extracts moisture and nutrients from older needles on Sitka spruce trees, causing them to turn yellow, red, and eventually drop.

According to ODF, the spruce aphid is "a long-established exotic and invasive insect" that can experience periodic outbreaks that hurt Sitka spruce trees along the West Coast and in Oregon.