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Monongahela National Forest Ecologist, Mike Elza, works with a video crew to create some public outreach materials for their work on Cheat Mountain.

The Nature Conservancy held it’s Red Spruce Tree Planting event at the Cranesville Swamp Preserve on Earth Day. This year

As cool, moist air kisses your skin, the very ground beneath your feet feels less than solid. A squelchsound accompanies every

By looking at spruce growth in research gardens and spruce genes in the lab, the project is investigating how P. rubens declined

A project that began with the killing of some trees aims to help thousands of new saplings survive. Read the

Scientists aren’t sure if the ice age disappearance of a once-common tree is a reason for hope or a cause

Year by year, with perseverance, Dave Saville has grown a towering tree-planting operation. Sealed in stackable plastic boxes alongside the

In the 1970s, red spruce was the forest equivalent of a canary in the coal mine, signaling that acid rain

The Nature Conservancy in West Virginia received a $25,000 grant from the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, the largest grant awarded

Since the 1960s, scientists at the University of Vermont have been documenting the decline of red spruce trees, casualties of