“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 ...

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 ...

The crucial components are made of similar materials, with a helicopter's rotor blades generally being constructed today from composite materials.  It's essential that these parts of the aircraft be ...

The spruce from genus Picea inhabit primary cooler environments at higher elevations. They are a favorite in the landscape as they are extremely beautiful.

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.

Either way, it makes an interesting counterpoint to the Sitka spruce. Ovangkol is more on the rosewood side of the tone wood scale. It certainly has a nice deep red-brown colour, which Harley Benton ...