Anyone who’s met me can confirm: I love the holidays. No matter the season, I happily listen to carols, scour estate sales for vintage decor and daydream about my mom’s Christmas cookies.

True firs include our native balsam fir, Fraser fir from the southern Appalachians, and white or concolor fir from the West. People choose a Christmas tree species depending on tradition and ...

If you want an experience that has some semblance of visiting a Christmas tree farm, this is about as close as you can get online. They offer a wide variety, including Balsam Fir, Fraser Fir ...

A very special Earth Day celebration was enjoyed by more than 40 people from West Virginia’s conservation community at ...

However, with increasing elevation, balsam fir tends to dominate. Near timberline ... Sugar maple, American beech, and yellow birch are the predominant tree species. Yellow birch occurs most ...

However, Christmas trees are classified as softwoods, and are typically species such as balsam fir, Douglas fir, Fraser fir, noble fir, Scotch pine, Virginia pine and white pine. These softwoods ...

Ernest A. Korankye, Rajasekaran R. Lada, Samuel K. Asiedu and Claude Caldwell. 2018. Mechanical shaking and bailing of balsam fir trees influence postharvest needle senescence and abscission. American ...