Most uses for Douglas-fir today capitalize on the wood’s high strength, yet the beauty of this wood makes it favored for millwork, furniture, cabinets and flooring.

Add year-round privacy to your yard with a fast-growing evergreen that thrives in cool climates, needs little upkeep, and ...

Scientists examined how growth rates in the trees changed over 91-year period. As warm, dry conditions continue in the future, fewer Douglas firs expected to grow Growth slowed across species’ range, ...

A new study finds the West is likely to see slower-growing Douglas fir trees in the future, as temperatures and droughts increase with climate change. Researchers with the University of ...

Within a few days, a blue spruce was transformed from a bright and handsome tree to a sad, brown structure, retaining only its oldest needles on its lower branches. A horde of Douglas-fir tussock ...

Increases in mortality among Douglas-fir in the Klamath Mountains are the result of multiple factors that have the iconic tree in a 'decline spiral' in parts of the region. Increases in mortality ...

Sean M. Matthews, J. Mark Higley, Kerry M. Rennie, Rebecca E. Green, Charles A. Goddard, Greta M. Wengert, Mourad W. Gabriel and Todd K. Fuller Many demographic parameters of imperiled fishers (Martes ...

Drought can damage and sometimes kill Douglas-fir trees. Dying trees have been spotted frequently in western Oregon this spring. (Glenn Ahrens) Many Oregonians have noticed widespread damage in ...

When Lance Winters, master distiller at St. George Spirits in Alameda, decided he wanted to make a line of "terroir"-inspired gins, he realized an East Bay gin might be tricky, so he cast his gaze ...

A Douglas fir affectionately named Yoda survived many a drought in its six-plus centuries of existence in a rugged lava flow in the El Malpais National Monument area near Grants, New Mexico, but it ...