Only In Your State on MSN: This small-town state park in New Hampshire feels like a local secret
New Hampshire is such a beautiful state, and so much of it is still dominated by nature. As soon as you head out of the big cities, it often feels like you’re heading into the great unknown for an ...
This small-town state park in New Hampshire feels like a local secret
Only In Your State on MSN: 3 Picture-Perfect Nature Trails in New Hampshire for Spring Hiking
Early spring hits a little differently in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. While regions to the south of us are experiencing hikes full of blooming trees, fields of gorgeous wildflowers, and ...
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 ...