This species, also known as paper birch, resembles a white paper-like bark. White birch was often used by Indigenous peoples ...

The Culture ministry has kick started a project to preserve and digitise nearly 50 crore pages of rare manuscripts under the ...

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.

Dear Master Gardener: We would like to plant a large shade tree with beautiful fall color to add to our landscape. Is a ...

FACT: Archaeologists found the 13th century scribblings of a 7-year-old boy. By Rachel Feltman. Dating back to at least the 1st century in various parts of the world, people have used birch bark ...

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 ...

Some aspen trees have grayish-white bark when they are young or on higher branches, but the bark won’t peel like paper birch. For example, the bark of young quaking aspen may be grayish-white ...

This all came up last week while I was watching our birch trees blow in the wind. For some reason, I was taken back 10 or 15 years. We had lots and lots of aphids in our trees back then.

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 ...

The renewable material is made from birch bark from the residue of the global pulp, paper and plywood industry. Heini Siekkinen, senior manager, research & sustainability of Nokian, said lab results ...