Future of national public lands is precarious, but Americans across demographic and ideological lines value parks: ‘people champion their parks.’ ...

On one of their last school days this year, Collins Academy High School students shot hoops at the Douglass Park basketball courts. Their shoes squeaked on the concrete, hot from the noon sun, as ...

Clean, cool and calling your name—these are the best lakes for swimming in the USA America’s most swimmable lakes When it comes to lakes, we tend to think in one of two directions ...

This 55-foot blue spruce tree on South Washington Street has a new look, with 1,875 multicolor LED lights and a brilliant white star on top. Walter Hinick Kathleen J. Bryan ...

According to ODF, the spruce aphid is "a long-established exotic and invasive insect" that can experience periodic outbreaks that hurt Sitka spruce trees along the West Coast and in Oregon.

The Indiana County Amateur Radio Club hosted its annual Amateur Radio Field Day on Saturday and Sunday at Blue Spruce Park. This year’s program brought in around 15 radio enthusiasts who set up ...

When Chris Watson discovered an old tree near Spruce Lake in the Saint John area, he counted 383 tree rings. Once analyzed in a lab, the tree was found to be more than 400 years old.

A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the Family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the earth. In ...

Blue Spruce, believed to have been the first Native American dentist, died June 2 at his home in Surprise, Ariz. He was 94.