The scene from late March 2018 showed what looked like spruce trees precisely where—according to a 2002 paper published in Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research—none had grown since before ...

Usually, spruce seeds don’t travel more than a few hundred feet from a tree. But Dial is finding young white spruce growing from seeds that must have traveled 5 to 7 miles—and over mountains ...

Spruce aphids have stripped needles from trees near Marian Beck’s Saltry Restaurant in Halibut Cove. Photographed Sunday, May 15, 2016. (Charles Wohlforth / Alaska Dispatch News) ...

The scene from late March 2018 showed what looked like spruce trees precisely where--according to a 2002 paper published in Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research--none had grown since before the ...

A spruce bark beetle-killed tree on the Anchorage hillside. (Loren Holmes / ADN) I am getting crushed by emails asking what to plant once beetle-killed spruce trees are removed.

While wandering middle Alaska this summer, I noticed orange spruce trees along the entire length of the Denali Highway, from Paxson to Cantwell. In what looked like a dendrological case of ...

Planet Alaska: Eat your trees. By Vivian Faith Prescott; Wednesday, June 13, ... Gunalchéesh spruce tree. We keep telling stories while we pick, letting the animals know we’re here: ...

The 1990s epidemic killed trees in 40% more territory than was affected in all the Alaska infestations over the prior 70 years combined, according to scientists from the Forest Service, U.S. Fish ...

In Skagway, the gateway to the Klondike, spruce tips play an important role in the local economy, with locals and visitors trading them for cash and goods. A year after moving to Skagway, Alaska ...

But in the far north of Alaska, they’re a reckoning. As the Arctic warms up to four times as fast as the rest of the planet, white spruce trees are now spreading into tundra that was once ...

Crews cut down beetle-killed spruce trees in Anchorage in 2021. (Alaska Public Media) Take a flight over the Mat-Su valley, the Anchorage Bowl, or the Kenai Peninsula and you may notice areas that ...