When the hills and valleys are filled with snow and the icy grip of Old Man Winter continues its reign throughout the land, there are still beautiful swaths of green to be found. Hemlocks are a ...

Pennsylvania's state tree is the eastern hemlock. Its scientific name is "Tsuga canadensis."The eastern hemlock was named the state tree in 1931.These trees are slow-growing and long-lived, taking 250 ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. — There are an estimated 170 million eastern hemlock trees in Michigan. An invasive pest threatens to kill the entire population, so a task force has assembled to fight it. Hemlock ...

n adult specimen of the Hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugaeis, shown in a handout photo from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Archive. (Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The state of Michigan has approved $3.6 million in grants to help fund projects to ward off invasive species, including hydrilla and the hemlock woolly adelgid. The ...

We had our first winter snow storm this past weekend, a nice change from the warmer than usual conditions across most of the country. Snow is an important part of our local ecosystems, the plants and ...

Rhode Island is mobilizing a small army of "tiny but mighty" bugs to help save its majestic hemlock trees. Brought into the Ocean State from Virginia, the predator beetles named Laricobius nigrinus ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — If you have hemlock trees on your property, the time to protect them from a deadly invasive insect is approaching. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says spring ...

Round, white hemlock woolly adelgid ovisacs are found on the undersides of branches near the base of the needles. (Michigan Department of Natural Resources) The Michigan Department of Natural ...

The sculptor Jean Shin gravitates to castoff objects, including a threatened tree at Olana, the former estate of Frederic Church. In memory of the millions of hemlocks that fell in the 19th century to ...