jojoo64 / Getty Images. White spruce (Picea glauca) is also known as Canadian spruce, skunk spruce, cat spruce, Black Hills spruce, western white spruce, Alberta white spruce, and Porsild spruce.

At the time, the tree measured 117 inches around, stood at 57 feet and measured 51 feet at the crown from branch tip to branch tip. Though it wasn't nearly as tall as the biggest white spruce in ...

At Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve in rural Albany County, the white spruce trees are struggling. Planted in the 1920s at what was then the southern part of the trees’ range, the plot now has no ...