Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Fir needles are typically short and mostly soft with blunt tips. The cones ...
CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Increases in mortality among Douglas firs in the Klamath Mountains are the result of multiple factors that have the iconic tree in a “decline spiral” in parts of the region, a ...
The Douglas fir, also called a Douglas tree, Oregon pine or Douglas spruce, can grow hundreds of feet high — and the oldest of the species can live for over 1,000 years. The Douglas fir was named ...