Dec 18, 2025 · Paleobotanist Jack A. Wolfe of the United States Geological Survey at Menlo Park, California, has found a number of tropical rain forest fossils along the eastern Gulf of Alaska. These …

Dec 18, 2025 · The Klukwan giant belies the belief that trees tend to get smaller the farther north one goes. Both balsam poplar and cottonwood have value for fuel wood, pulp and lumber.

Apr 1, 1993 · The hardiest trees rely on physics more than on chemistry to make it through the winter. When the seasonal chill begins to reach black or white spruce, for example, the sap leaves their …

Nov 27, 2024 · Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red …

Jul 23, 2021 · Here, in a forest a few hundred feet above a shrinking glacier, Gaglioti is felling one of the most enigmatic trees in Alaska: an Alaska yellow cedar. These trees, which can live longer than …

Dec 18, 2025 · When one of these trees finds itself on a better site, however, it shows a remarkable change of pace. Individual tamarack growing in white spruce stands may achieve a size comparable …

Dec 18, 2025 · In the second area, all trees and brush were removed to within about a foot above ground level and the major growth was kept trimmed, although a dense growth of shrubs, such as …

Dec 18, 2025 · Red, diamond-shaped depressions in the otherwise creamy white willow wood create the curious, sometimes exotic, patterns exhibited by canes and furniture made from Alaskan diamond …

Aug 16, 2010 · The Alaska champion black spruce tree stands on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The tree lives in a mixed forest next to large white spruce trees, mature birch and a few …

Dec 18, 2025 · It was found that, over the course of a year, trees at both locations produced the same amount of wood, but that Alaska trees produced the wood in one-half the time required by those in …