4 days ago · Paleobotanist Jack A. Wolfe of the United States Geological Survey at Menlo Park, California, has found a number of tropical rain forest fossils along the eastern Gulf of Alaska. …

A similar instrument will be housed in a new Climate Change Monitoring Station this spring. surface, with no large trees around to inject chemicals in it, no dust storms, and no polluting …

Nov 20, 2025 · The Klukwan giant belies the belief that trees tend to get smaller the farther north one goes. Both balsam poplar and cottonwood have value for fuel wood, pulp and lumber.

4 days ago · Somehow black spruce trees seem like the jackasses of the northern forests--sort of ungainly looking, ugly little beasts that somehow can survive under conditions prohibitive to …

4 days ago · Red, diamond-shaped depressions in the otherwise creamy white willow wood create the curious, sometimes exotic, patterns exhibited by canes and furniture made from Alaskan …

Jul 11, 2025 · Then, the sap of birch trees flows upward and makes a reasonable northern substitute for sugar maple sap. The sap from any birch will do. One of the more common trees …

Apr 1, 1993 · The hardiest trees rely on physics more than on chemistry to make it through the winter. When the seasonal chill begins to reach black or white spruce, for example, the sap …

Nov 20, 2025 · Granted, not all trees exhibit the same twist, but the majority of them do. The phenomenon can be likened to the claim that water will always spiral out of a drain in a …

Nov 20, 2025 · When one of these trees finds itself on a better site, however, it shows a remarkable change of pace. Individual tamarack growing in white spruce stands may achieve …

Nov 20, 2025 · It was found that, over the course of a year, trees at both locations produced the same amount of wood, but that Alaska trees produced the wood in one-half the time required …