Come back tomorrow for No. 5. In a state of big trees, the Sitka spruce at is the granddaddy of them all. At 206 feet tall (it was 216 feet until a lightening storm in 1999), this 750-year-old ...

Once measuring 200 feet tall with a 17-foot diameter and a circumference of 56 feet, the Sitka spruce between Seaside and Cannon Beach was officially the largest tree in Oregon, and one of the ...

“The rainforest provides a perfect growth environment that gave us so many great candidate trees to select from, and in the end, I know we found the perfect Sitka spruce to represent Alaska and ...

Crews will hoist the 80-foot tree up on the West Lawn f the Capitol. It's a tradition dating back 60 years. The towering Sitka Spruce is in D.C. following a long journey from Alaska. The tree is ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, an 80-foot Sitka spruce from the Wrangell District Region in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, was delivered by two Alaska-based truck ...

University of British Columbia researcher Vince Hanlon is seen among Sitka spruce trees, averaging 80 metres tall and ranging in age from 220 to 500 years old, in Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park ...

The Sitka is what has come to be seen as the a typical Christmas tree, along with the Norway Spruce and Nordmann Fir. This year, the tree that has been chosen is 43 feet tall, or 13 metres ...

The negative perception of Sitka spruce growing in Scotland needs to change if the country is to meet its tree planting targets and decrease its reliance on timber imports, industry leaders have said.

A forest advocacy group says it has discovered an unprotected old-growth forest that is home to a near-record sized Sitka spruce tree on Vancouver Island. The Ancient Forest Alliance says the 3.3 ...