The tamarack, or eastern larch, is a deciduous evergreen tree that sheds its needles in the fall, only to regrow them the following spring, forming a whorl at the end of the twig, which makes ...

Add it all up and pest outbreaks have left Minnesota with quite a lot of dead trees, useless lumber and dried-out and wasted stands, which, if left to rot, will become one large fire hazard. But there ...

Minnesota’s northern forests are expected to look vastly different a century from now - with fewer spruce, tamarack and fir trees and more maple, oak and basswood - due to a warming climate. That’s ...