Western larches are the showy paradox of Inland Northwest forests. Each fall, the trees outshine other conifers with a short-lived burst of gold-hued beauty. At Sherman Pass in the Colville National ...

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 ...

• In Washington: From Kettle Falls, take State Route 20 over Sherman Pass to Republic, head north to Curlew, take the Boulder Creek Road (Forest Service Road 61) back to U.S. Highway 395. • In Idaho : ...

Almost naked last week, the larch still held enough color to stand out in the crowd of evergreens. Clusters of green needle-shaped leaves emerged during spring like a feathery fleece on the tree’s ...

You can spot the gold of the larch trees high on the eastern and northern Cascades in Washington. But to really see them, to feel their softness and breathe in their scent, you must hike. Up. And up ...

It’s the perfect time to pay a visit to the Metolius Preserve. When I visited the Larch Trails last weekend, the Western larch trees were a shocking vibrant hue of yellow. During points of the ...

Autumn in Oregon is a visual feast. The maples, oaks, alders and cottonwoods serve a rich bounty of vibrant colors each year. Growing up, we all learned that deciduous trees are the ones that turn red ...

Eastern larch beetles, tiny burrowing bugs native to Minnesota, are exploding in number across the state's northern forest and have killed or damaged about a third of the state's tamarack trees — one ...

The Dahurian larch tree, known by its scientific name as Larix gmelinii, is specially adapted to survive the long, cold, dark winters of the permafrost plains in northern Asia. The species makes up ...

An area popular with mountain bikers in Ceredigion is to shut for three months while larch trees infected with a disease are felled. Work to remove the trees from around a lake at Bwlch Nant-yr-Arian, ...