Evergreen trees and shrubs, including white pine, red pine, Austrian pine, Norway spruce, white spruce, arborvitae, mugo pine, balsam fir and more, need water until the ground freezes.
A 3,000-acre hot spot of partially denuded spruce-fir forest suggested the once-a-generation outbreak everyone had feared might have begun. The patch of defoliated trees near Little East Lake just ...