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 ...
Los Angeles Times: From tree to table: How salvaged wood becomes furniture
The salvaged wood look remains a huge trend in home design, but the transformation of reclaimed urban tree to dining room tabletop is a lot more complicated than most people think – and can take years ...
UVA Today: A Tulip Poplar Tree Gets a Second Life as a Table, Thanks to Architecture Students
A Tulip Poplar Tree Gets a Second Life as a Table, Thanks to Architecture Students
This rugged coffee table would cost a small fortune to purchase, but you can make it yourself for a lot less. The following is an excerpt fromTree Craft: 35 Rustic Wood Projects That Bring 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.