Right next to a tree stripped of its needles will be several 6-, 10- and maybe even 15-foot young trees, probably absorbing the nutrients from the deceased neighbor, but certainly thriving. And ...

From 2012: Grand Forks teen builds birch bark canoe using traditional tools NORTHWEST ANGLE, Minn. ... He used black spruce roots for lacing to stitch the materials together.

One more telltale sign of the swamp spruce is a dense cover of small hairs on the bark of young branch tips. In some instances, black spruce will hybridize with other spruces, making positive ...

Mary Jo DiLonardo has worked in print, online, and broadcast journalism for 25 years and covers nature, health, science, and animals. Young trees sometimes have smooth bark that's unbroken by ...

Breakthrough in the fight against spruce bark beetles Date: February 16, 2021 Source: Lund University Summary: For the first time, a research team has mapped out exactly what happens when spruce ...

More information: Eva Plath et al, Dieback of spruce plantations: Deadwood stands and management heterogeneity enhance beetle ...

Highlights: 710 black spruce bark samples were collected on a grid centred on the 7.3 km conductive trend along the regional-scale Bapst fault, which is associated with Zn, Pb Ag, Mo and Cu ...

Hot, dry summers are fanning an unprecedented outbreak of bark beetles that are destroying vast swathes of central Europe's spruce forests which define the region's landscape. Skip to main content ...

The UK’s very first outbreak of the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle has been detected along with a warning the brightly-coloured creepy crawlies love nothing more than to munch on spruce, pine ...