Forbes: Tracing The Footsteps Of John Muir On Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail
The Register Citizen: Tree of famed naturalist John Muir to be saved via cloning
MARTINEZ, Calif. -- The legend of California naturalist John Muir has achieved immortality. With luck, so will his one special tree. Only a seedling when transplanted by Muir from the rugged Sierra ...
Summertime is John Muir time. The Scottish-American naturalist and author, who lived from 1838 to 1914, was an early advocate for wilderness preservation in the United States and is one of the reasons ...
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.
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.
By late winter, intricate buildups of hoarfrost crystals have formed on wooden poles and other objects. Warming rays of the sun cause evaporation of whatever frost may have formed on the south side of vertical poles and trees. Conduction within metal poles causes enough heat transfer to entirely remove the hoarfrost crystals from the pole surface.
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.