Trees also inhabit the best of all worlds: heaven and earth. With roots planted in the ground, they enjoy a taste of soil, ...

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 last time Sitka’s undersea fiber optic cable broke in 2017, the resulting outage lasted 12 days, but didn’t seem nearly as apocalyptic as the latest event. Seven years ago, we didn’t ...

The first white settler girl born inside the muddy wooden fortress of American Sitka was named Josephine Rudolph — Josie, as she is remembered by her descendants today. Her parents were not the ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Colorado blue spruce is not native to Indiana (no spruce is!), and it often suffers from environmental stresses such as drought, excessive heat, humidity, and compacted or ...

Richard Spruce was born on the 10th of September 1817 at Ganthorpe, near Castle Howard, in Yorkshire. He was educated by his father, who was a teacher. Spruce's interest in natural history dated back ...

Sitka Gold Corp. engages in the exploration of mineral resource properties in Canada and the United States. The company explores for gold, silver, zinc, and copper deposits. Its holds 100% ...

Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, the community of Spruce Pine, population 2,194, is known for its hiking, local artists and as America’s sole source of high-purity quartz. Helene dumped ...

Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction throughout North Carolina. Here is ongoing coverage from The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer about ...

Hurricane Helene dropped more than two feet of rain on Spruce Pine North Carolina. The town is home to one of the world's only sources of high purity quartz— which is used to manufacture silicon ...