Eastern hemlock trees do not do well in an urban environment and have a very low tolerance for polluted air and salt damage from roadways. It needs to be in a sheltered location protected from drying ...

CORNISH FLAT, N.H. The Canadian or Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) is, in my opinion, an under-utilized landscape tree. Perhaps they are spurned as too common, or rejected because they get too big.

It’s a warm day in early June, and researcher Nicholas Dietschler is standing in front of an eastern hemlock sapling about a quarter of a mile up a steep ridge in New York’s Catskill Mountains. The ...