One of the dominant tree species in our Colorado Rocky Mountain subalpine forests is the spruce. A spruce is an evergreen tree or conifer belonging to genus Picea and there are about 35 species ...

He practiced medicine by day and pursued botany by night, the one to pay the bills the other to fulfill a passion. In George Engelmann’s day a person could starve as a botanist, but he couldn’t make a ...

For the third time in the state’s history, a Colorado tree will be displayed on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol for Christmas. On Sunday, bundled-up visitors stopped at the Midtown development, at ...

Bryan Hankinson, a fall 2014 CU-Boulder student who graduated magna cum laude, developed hishonors thesis by investigating the relationship between an increase in spruce bark beetle population and a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — The 2020 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree has completed its journey from western Colorado to Washington, D.C. The Engelmann spruce from Colorado has arrived at the West Lawn of the ...

Engelmann spruce is the dominant tree at timberline in the Front Range at approximately 3,350 m elevation; it occurs as krummholz in the forest-tundra ecotone up to about 3,500 m, and occasional ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Variation in the mating systems of Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir was examined in two adjacent subpopulations in the Colorado Front Range.