: a tall spruce (Picea sitchensis) of the northern Pacific coast of North America that has thin reddish-brown bark, flat needles, and cones with slightly toothed scales see cone illustration
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The regulation prohibits the logging of Sitka spruce that have a breast-height diameter of 9.3 feet or more.
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Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 11 June 2021
Thanks to biking, paddleboarding, boat tours, fishing, and hiking trails — one of which leads to a 1,000-year-old Sitka spruce tree — there's no shortage of natural delights here.
—Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2024
The water was full of surfers in wet suits; colossal Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, and cedar trees lined the shore.
—Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
Redwoods are so large that one reportedly was found to house a Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), 8 feet tall, growing far off the ground within the larger tree.
—Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2024
New furniture includes handmade Sitka spruce tables and desks.
—Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
After Sean Ovens, a police officer in Tacoma, Washington, died of suicide last summer, his mother, Roberta Vollendorff, had his remains composted and used the soil around a Sitka spruce tree on her property.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 15 Apr. 2023
The main culprit is Sitka spruce, which crowd and slowly kill Scots pine—a risk that increases year-on-year, with mature conifers an acute threat to Scots pine and other native trees.
—Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 13 Feb. 2023
Young cottonwood and Sitka spruce began taking hold on the wider floodplain.
—Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 11 June 2021
Thanks to biking, paddleboarding, boat tours, fishing, and hiking trails — one of which leads to a 1,000-year-old Sitka spruce tree — there's no shortage of natural delights here.
—Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2024
The water was full of surfers in wet suits; colossal Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, and cedar trees lined the shore.
—Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
Redwoods are so large that one reportedly was found to house a Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), 8 feet tall, growing far off the ground within the larger tree.
—Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2024
New furniture includes handmade Sitka spruce tables and desks.
—Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
After Sean Ovens, a police officer in Tacoma, Washington, died of suicide last summer, his mother, Roberta Vollendorff, had his remains composted and used the soil around a Sitka spruce tree on her property.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 15 Apr. 2023
The main culprit is Sitka spruce, which crowd and slowly kill Scots pine—a risk that increases year-on-year, with mature conifers an acute threat to Scots pine and other native trees.
—Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 13 Feb. 2023
Young cottonwood and Sitka spruce began taking hold on the wider floodplain.
—Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
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Sitka spruce
noun
Sit·ka spruce
ˌsit-kə- 
: a tall spruce of the northern Pacific coast of North America with thin reddish brown bark and flat needles
also
: its wood
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