ANN ARBOR, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) - For many in the Metro Detroit area, Urquhart's is a holiday tradition. Brian and Susan Urquhart started the Christmas tree farm in 1991 with a single field, which has ...
WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — Ready to hang ornaments and tinsel? It’s Christmas tree time at farms and markets across Washtenaw County. Whether you want to chop down a tree yourself or grab a pre-cut tree, ...
CBS News: Family-owned Christmas tree farm near Ann Arbor enters 32nd season
MLive: The ultimate guide to finding the perfect Christmas tree in Washtenaw County
The ultimate guide to finding the perfect Christmas tree in Washtenaw County
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 ...