MSN: A chainsaw-wielding vandal cut 13 trees in downtown LA. How the LAPD tracked down a suspect
A chainsaw-wielding vandal cut 13 trees in downtown LA. How the LAPD tracked down a suspect
AOL: How to Use a Chainsaw Safely When Cutting Trees and Branches
For raw tree-cutting power, you can’t beat a gas chainsaw. Battery-powered chainsaws have come a long way, making it easier to clear branches and handle light landscaping without much maintenance, but ...
Yahoo: How To Sharpen Your Chainsaw For Easy and Safe Tree Work
A smarter option is to use a pole saw. These tree- and shrub-trimming machines, which are essentially a chainsaw at the end of a 5- to 10-foot pole, allow you to cut off limbs up to 15 feet off the ...
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 ...