I wanted to see if Balsam Hill's expensive trees lived up to the high price tag. I tested the Fraser Fir, which is about in the middle, cost-wise. It was easily the most convincing fake tree I put ...

artificial Christmas trees, it puts my mind at ease knowing ... Pick up the Balsam Hill Balsam Fir flip tree on the brand’s website. My 7.5-foot tree with clear lights retails for $1,699.

Property owners can access help addressing the spruce budworm problem thanks to the Arrowhead Forest Partnership.

"It's quite, quite abnormal to have such wide-scale death of these balsam fir trees," he said in a recent interview. "And it really stood out." The balsam fir accounts for about 20 per cent of all ...

Red needles seen on a balsam fir are shown in this handout image from New Brunswick. During a drive down a highway in the spring of 2018, a University of New Brunswick professor's wife pointed out ...

When I buy a Christmas tree it is generally a fir, a balsam fir, or its close cousin the Fraser fir. Only once have I ever bought a spruce for a Christmas tree, and still remember the pain ...