Cedar (Cedrus), also called "true" cedar, is a coniferous genus and species of trees in the plant family Pinaceae.They are most closely related to the Firs (Abies), sharing a very similar cone ...

Softwood conifers include pine, spruce, fir, and cedar trees. But despite the name, wood hardness varies among the conifer species. ... Identify 6 Common North American Trees by Their Leaves.

“Every cedar tree is very important to the Native American population because they help root us to who we are ancestrally,” says Gail White Eagle, a Muckleshoot master weaver.

Port Orford cedar trees in Redwood National Park that were killed by the root disease caused by the pathogen Phytophthora lateralis. Credit: Richard Sniezko. In the early 2000s, U.S. Forest Service ...

A bid to curb logging of South and Central American cedar trees, the source of some of the world's most valuable timber, failed at a United Nations wildlife meeting.

Q. Last fall, I planted 130 Northern white cedar trees because we were in urgent need of a windbreak, after the utility company went through and cut down all the trees in front of our house. I ...

There are a whole lot of trees being removed from Grand Island’s Platte River well field, the primary source for city water.

This 1968 photo shows the canopy of American elms over Second Avenue SE in Cedar Rapids before Dutch elm disease killed the trees. The city would lose 9,160 of the elms before the disease abated ...