I moved into a house a few years ago that is surrounded by 27 mature hemlock trees. These graceful evergreens shelter the brick house and soften it, as well as provide a gorgeous privacy screen. You ...

If you ever made friends with a tree, then you will understand why I wrote this. The Eastern hemlock became my friend when I was a child, playing on a forested slope behind the house that my dad built ...

It’s a warm day in early June, and researcher Nicholas Dietschler is standing in front of an eastern hemlock sapling about a quarter of a mile up a steep ridge in New York’s Catskill Mountains. The ...

The state plans to treat infestations of invasive hemlock woolly adelgid in the Adirondacks this fall including a new batch found in the Wilcox Lake Wild Forest in Saratoga County. That wild forest ...

A new study finds that creating physical gaps in the forest canopy give eastern hemlocks more access to resources and help those trees withstand infestation by an invasive insect. The approach adds ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – An invasive insect known to attack conifer trees was discovered on out-of-state Christmas tree products that were shipped to big box stores in Oregon. The Oregon Department of ...