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Spruce Mapping Project Complete!

After almost 3 years and a lot of work, CASRI partners have finally completed a current map of red spruce

Knowledge, both of the historical range of spruce-dominated forests and associated site conditions, is needed by land managers to help

ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA – The Nature Conservancy completed a major restoration project in the high-elevation forest of West Virginia’s Randolph County

The Cheat Mountain salamander (Plethodon nettingi) is a federally endangered species that relies heavily on red spruce (Picea rubens) for

Cub Pack 81 from Kingwood, WV joined 100 or so other folks to plant 5,000 red spruce trees at the Canaan

The USDA Forest Service, Eastern Region has featured the work of CASRI, and the Monongahela National Forest, as a “Model

Wild Wonderful West Virginia Magazine, a Relic of the Ice Age: West Virginia’s Balsam Fir by Ray Hicks and Ken

1949 Journal of Forestry Pages 349-356, Reforestation in the Spruce Type in the Southern Appalachians, Leon S. Minckler. This is

Not particularly complete or up-to-date, this bibliography is still a valuable resource for information about central appalachian fir trees. Download

Taxonomists today would disagree, but this is none-the-less an interesting article from Volume 1 of Castanea, the Journal of the