CHEAT MOUNTAIN, W.Va. — Red spruce blanketed the mountains of West Virginia a century ago, before being decimated by the saw blade and acid rain from coal plants. Now they’re replacing the mines that ...

Remember acid rain? In the 1970s and ‘80s, scientists found that rain 100 times more acidic than normal was harming the mountain forests of New England and New York. The pollution was linked to fossil ...

HUTTONSVILLE, W.Va. — Rodney Bartgis crouched down, slowly turning over rocks in search of the elusive Cheat Mountain salamander on Central West Virginia’s Gaudineer Knob. Already federally listed ...

Randolph County W.Va. — The vast area now known as West Virginia was once considered the frontier by pioneer settlers. The virgin forest that covered the mountains laid mostly undisturbed until the ...

Since the 1960s, scientists at the University of Vermont have been documenting the decline of red spruce trees, casualties of the damage caused by acid rain on northeastern forests. But now, ...

Wild red spruces are beautiful evergreen trees native to mixed forests in eastern Canada around the St. Lawrence River, northern New England and the Adirondack Mountains of upper New York State.

The U.S. Forest Service almost found the answer Wednesday to the age-old riddle, “If a 78-foot Christmas tree is felled live on Facebook and the sound is muted so no one can hear, does it still kick ...