Before the season ends, bring a friend who has never tasted morels to Sitka and Spruce. That's what I did, and they outshone the golden memories of my own first wild mushrooms. It's a good ...

SEASIDE, Ore. – The nation’s tallest Sitka spruce could be on its last limbs. Last week’s strong winds knocked a section of rotted wood from the trunk of the 204-foot tree southeast of Seaside, and ...

I finally took time to visit Oregon's new champion, Big Spruce in It's a whopper! It became the biggest Sitka Spruce in 2007 when the Klootchy Creek Spuce near Seaside lost its upper half in a wind ...

A study has identified genes involved in development of stone cells -- rigid cells that can block a nibbling insect from eating budding branches of the Sitka spruce evergreen tree. The insect's attack ...