Currently, the hemlock trees in Tennessee's Cherokee National Forest and across the Eastern United States are threatened by the hemlock woolly adelgid, a tiny invasive insect that infests hemlock ...

the remaining lots of wood were left to rot in the forest. Ultimately, the tanning industry began to decline starting in the early 1900s. By this time, hemlock stands throughout the northeast were ...

Hemlock. Black spruce. Wetlands. We learn the understory. Inventory. Model and map. Come to know this land we roam—looking under rocks, measuring trunk girth, ascending to the forest canopy to ...

This tiny parasite spreads across the forest by hitch-hiking on birds. HWA use sucking mouthparts to pierce through the base of the hemlock needles into the parenchyma cells (nutrient transport cells) ...

New York’s forests are in trouble. Tiny, destructive insects are spreading fast, killing trees that have stood for hundreds ...

After the death of 95 percent of the park’s hemlocks from the invasive insect hemlock woolly adelgid ... the vision and leadership of retired forest health supervisor Rolf Gubler with monetary ...