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. These include several kinds of palms, Burmese lacquer trees, mangroves and trees of the type that now produce nutmeg and Macassar oil.
Updated For decades, the city's forestry workers battled Dutch elm disease with projects to spraying healthy trees and removing dead or diseased trees. The ...
The American elm (Ulmus americana) was once a common sight on the Upper Mississippi River, but Dutch elm disease, or DED, has killed many trees. DED is an invasive fungal pathogen that is spread by ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser: Title IX Profiles: Kelly (Majam) Elms, Jessica Iwata provided a 1-2 punch while ushering in the golden age of Wahine softball
Kelly (Majam) Elms, left, and Jessica Iwata displayed powerful bats as well as overall ability during a meteoric Wahine run. Nearly a decade removed from their final at-bats, Iwata and Elms look back ...
Title IX Profiles: Kelly (Majam) Elms, Jessica Iwata provided a 1-2 punch while ushering in the golden age of Wahine softball
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.
Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel pups. Over the years, those squirrels have taught Boutin and his colleagues many things, including an apparent ability to predict the future.