The "Tree of Life" is a massive draw in Washington's Olympic National Park, but the famous Sitka spruce is hanging on for dear life in recent times. According to National Parks Traveler ...

Each blade starts with edge-grained Sitka spruce boards that are carefully planed to some top-secret exact thickness. Several boards are glued together on their long edges and dried to about 7% ...

The Sitka is what has come to be seen as the a typical Christmas tree, along with the Norway Spruce and Nordmann Fir. This year, the tree that has been chosen is 43 feet tall, or 13 metres ...

Plans for a conifer forest that has seen strong opposition from a local community have been delayed by several months.