Two thirds of the forests consist of Scots pine or Norway spruce.

The company stayed in Seattle to take advantage of the local supply of spruce wood.

And Alsace must be so beautiful, with all those tall fir trees, all that snow, and the storks.

Well, before rain forests, ancestors of trees like cypress, pine and spruce dominated the

This is the spruce Gran Picea, which at 9,550 years is a mere babe in the woods.

For cool trout streams and deep spruce woods. For chilly fog rising off the Pacific and deep snow blanketing the mountains.

limbs to droop, and so sharpening their tops, had changed the pines into fir trees wading to the tops of the highest hills when the show was nearly two feet deep on a level, and shaking down another snow storm on my head at every step or sometimes creeping and floundering thither on my hands and knees, when the hunters had gone into winter quarters.

We have now discovered that there is a multi directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium so the mycelium is the mother that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks, cedars and Douglas firs.