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This species, also known as paper birch, resembles a white paper-like bark. White birch was often used by Indigenous peoples ...
In this episode of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces the Paper Birch. This species is found in the North Woods of Northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
In 1951, archaeologists in Novgorod discovered the first Old Russian birch-bark texts, and more than 1,200 of them have been found to date. Before the availability of paper, soft birch bark was ...
Savannah Williams leans against a birch tree in a still frame from "Birchbark." The film explores the common uses of birchbark by the Ojibwe people and Indigenous Karelian people in Russia.
The paper noted birch bark oil created through heat was "traditionally mixed with goose fat or bear grease" to make a skin salve. Chemist and Mi'kmaq scholar team up to study healing powers of ...