In response to last week's column about identifying evergreens, reader Gary H. asks columnist Don Kinzler if a larch is considered an evergreen because it loses its needles in the winter. Reader Gary ...

Western larches are stately trees, soaring 90 to nearly 200 feet tall, with branches that spill out in a neat cascade from a narrow crown. While the majority of conifers are evergreen — retaining ...

This video shows a mountain landscape in Altai Mountains, Siberia, Russia, where tall rocky peaks covered with patches of ...

Stephen F. Arno of Missoula has self-published through Amazon a book on the ecology and history of the Northwestern larch titled “Golden Trees of the Mountain West.” According to the book’s cover, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 25—Autumn in western Montana is like a warm-hued sunset. Fields turn yellow in the last throes of summer heat as golden ...

As November comes to a close, we find ourselves just three weeks away from the official arrival of winter. Many of us have seen our first snowflakes already, and last week, we had a wintry mix that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every fall, Washington’s larch trees transform from green to golden yellow before shedding their needles, creating a short-lived ...

Golden larch in the Cascade Mountains of Washington. Washington is called the Evergreen State for a reason. Spanning some 22 million acres, the state's eternally emerald forests are one of its most ...

Growing up in the Larchmont area of Norfolk, I always heard that the neighborhood was named that because of the abundance of larch trees here. I have come to find out that the trees I thought were ...

REMER, Minn. — Judging by the view from a gravel road north of Remer, Minnesota, the forest is fine. Maybe some dry patches in spots, sure. But nothing that would grab your attention as you drive by.

The Larch trees still exist and can be found in the woods a little east of the Memorial Park ski jump. In 1980, at the urging of Windham County Forester Gil Cameron, the Recreation and Parks ...