In an area of Ireland hit hard by the Troubles, townspeople are fighting what they say is a new wave of colonialism: tree ...

Vicky Allan takes a tour round the sawmill near Lockerbie taking spruce logs and making construction timber and finds it is a lesson in ...

Stobo Hope forest plantation has been the subject of not one but two judicial reviews. So why is planting trees so troubled and contentious?

Each blade starts with edge-grained Sitka spruce boards that are carefully planed to some top-secret exact thickness. Several boards are glued together on their long edges and dried to about 7% ...

The Sitka is what has come to be seen as the a typical Christmas tree, along with the Norway Spruce and Nordmann Fir. This year, the tree that has been chosen is 43 feet tall, or 13 metres ...