Then you have just met a spikey, square spruce. The species of spruce that are most commonly seen in the Eagle Valley are the blue spruce (the state tree of Colorado) and Engelmann spruce. Spruce ...

These small conifer trees for birds provide food and refuge in all seasons. These varieties are perfect for small landscapes.

The morning sun illuminated a towering Engelmann spruce with two large finches perched near the top. The top third of the tree bore a heavy crop of reddish-brown cones amidst its dense green foliage.

I wandered deep into a spruce fir forest, far from a road, not far from a small lake, and sat down in the shadows to see what would happen. In just a few minutes, a party broke out -- a dinner party.

Blue Spruce is found in Colorado and in southwest range of southwest Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. It is found at elevations that can range up to 12,000 feet in elevation. In […] ...

The spruce beetle affected 25,000 new acres of Engelmann in Colorado in 2019. And in recent years, the roundheaded pine beetle has been attacking the region’s ponderosa pines, impacting 22,000 ...

I wandered deep into a spruce fir forest, far from a road, not far from a small lake, and sat down in the shadows to see what would happen. In just a few minutes, a party broke out — a dinner… ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - An outbreak of spruce beetles continues to accelerate across hundreds of square miles of new forest in Colorado, although a much larger outbreak of the similar mountain pine ...

DENVER (AP) — One type of tree-killing beetle is attacking Colorado forests at a faster pace, but another is slowing down, partly because because it’s running out of live trees to infest ...