If you want to find an outdoor screen-free family activity, consider birdwatching for kids. It's an easy, low-cost way to ...

If you’re not impressed yet, think about this — thanks to two very long ceca (cecum, plural), a dusky grouse lives all winter on a monotonous diet of spruce needles while maintaining a body ...

Stobo Hope forest plantation has been the subject of not one but two judicial reviews. So why is planting trees so troubled and contentious?

But another story tells us the answers are not that simple. It has it that many of these plantations are not as good for the environment or for carbon as is often touted. Some see the more commercial ...

Planting for a 700-hectare predominantly Sitka spruce forest at Stobo Hope ... particularly the fragile black grouse population. A spokesperson for the group said: “We would expect the EIA ...

Gymnosperms (literally “naked seed”), mostly have needles and encase their seeds in cones (examples include pines, junipers, spruce, and cedar ... and Sharp-tailed Grouse. Robins and Townsend’s ...

Diane Birdsall and Richard Hardy reported many juncos feeding on sunflower seed scattered across the snow below the feeder as ...

Thick boughs of pine, hemlock, spruce and fir provide a needled canopy that intercepts falling snow, creating a hollow where snow depth is reduced. The boughs help retain warmth from the day’s sun.

Blue jays are one of the first birds we learn to identify as kids. You can find them all over the country, but not a single state has chosen the blue jay as its state bird. This may be because ...