USA TODAY: Planting trees for the future, a legacy for generations | Opinion
Inspired by a poem, the author initially received black walnuts but did not plant them. A trip to a Vermont farm with towering black walnut trees renewed his interest in planting them. Motivated by a ...
Chicago Tribune: Melissa Hart: Why planting trees with like-minded people can lift your spirits on even the darkest days
I realized recently that early spring was prime time for tree planting, and if I committed to this practice, I’d find my purpose.
Melissa Hart: Why planting trees with like-minded people can lift your spirits on even the darkest days
Planting a tree is an investment in a future with more beauty and shade, less air pollution and flooding, and many other good things that a healthy canopy of trees brings to us and our communities.
USA Today: Planting a tree? Small investments in time and effort will pay long dividends
Planting a tree? Small investments in time and effort will pay long dividends
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.