MSN: As forest elephants plummet, ebony trees decline in Central Africa’s rainforests
In 2017, when Vincent Deblauwe joined the Cameroon-based Congo Basin Institute (CBI) to study African ebony (Diospyros crassiflora) — economically valuable pitch-black, dense wood — the Indigenous ...
USA TODAY: Planting trees for the future, a legacy for generations | Opinion
Inspired by a poem, the author initially received black walnuts but did not plant them. A trip to a Vermont farm with towering black walnut trees renewed his interest in planting them. Motivated by a ...
Yahoo: Ebony and ivory: why elephants and forests rise and fall together in the Congo Basin
Ebony and ivory: why elephants and forests rise and fall together in the Congo Basin
Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...
It is common for people in interior Alaska and corresponding areas of northwestern Canada to use the name cottonwood when referring to one widespread variety of deciduous tree.
A tree's age can be easily determined by counting its growth rings, as any Boy or Girl Scout knows. Annually, the tree adds new layers of wood which thicken during the growing season and thin during the winter. These annual growth rings are easily discernible (and countable) in cross-sections of the tree's trunk. In good growing years, when sunlight and rainfall are plentiful, the growth rings ...