You may have heard that pruning spruce trees in the landscape is an important way of maintaining their health, size, shape, and vigor. But this is more applicable to deciduous trees than evergreens.

BABBITT, MINN. — They met in the woods behind a substation, the game warden and the tree-top cutter, old adversaries confronting each other once again. The warden was checking on a call from Minnesota ...

We were pushing through head-high willows along a brushy caribou trail, five days into our week-long trek across Alaska's Noatak valley, when my hiking partner, Brad Meiklejohn, startled me with a ...