Koochiching County was recently recognized for its 25 years of participation in the Minnesota Tree Improvement Cooperative.

Flavored with spruce tips, juniper and cardamom, it’s a crowd-pleasing NA beverage that’s selling out all over the state.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is buying black spruce and jack pine cones at $100 and $30 per bushel, respectively. Cones must be ripe, closed, and clean . Black spruce ...

Spruce grouse hunters in northern Minnesota’s boreal forests are being asked to voluntarily submit feather samples for a genetics research project. The project is being conducted by the ...

Spruce budworm is native to Minnesota, where 100-plus years of fire suppression allowed dense stands of balsam fir to flourish. Despite its name, spruce budworm prefers balsam fir. Outbreaks kill ...

A great gray owl hunts from the top of a spruce tree along Minnesota Highway 61 on Saturday in Two Harbors. The great gray owl is a true owl, and is the world's largest species of owl by length.

MINNESOTA, USA — "Imagine now, a clear summer evening in the north woods. Above you, the bands of the Milky Way framed by the dark spindly boughs of spruce and fir. And cutting though the ...

Minnesota has two species of the little aerialists ... Its northern counterpart nests and lives among conifers like spruce, pine and fir. Both species overlap in habitat, such as in the mixed ...