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The first time I helped my mom make a pumpkin pie for our Thanksgiving dinner, my job was to retrieve the spices for the filling. I knew what cinnamon and nutmeg were, but what in the world was allspice?
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The more I know about and understand the trees that live around me at home, the more connected I feel to their tree relatives around the world.
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Although most trees lose their leaves just a few at a time, the leaves of gingko trees drop in synchrony, over the span of a day or two.
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As the ultimate of creepy crawlies, spiders get a very bad rap.
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My two granddaughters are Sierra and Brooke, wonderful names that connect them to nature.
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Trees were critical in the mapping of our nation.
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When you look at the cross section of the trunk of an old tree, you see that it has two zones: the sapwood, which is the younger wood that’s closest to the bark — and the heartwood, which is the darker, central part of the trunk.
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If you visit the great cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, you’ll note its tremendous height and expansive interior spaces, all hallmarks of the Gothic style of architecture. But they only exist because of one structural support: “flying buttresses.”
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Foresters often claim that lumber is a renewable resource.
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On a recent trip to the airport, I noticed one of those tree-shaped air-fresheners dangling from the rearview mirror, the driver's effort to sweeten the car air with the aroma of pine trees.
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The other day, as I lugged home 300 pounds of apples from my neighbor’s yard, I thought about the purpose of fruit.
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Local street fairs celebrate the character of neighborhoods all over the country, from the Snowy Owl Market in Maine’s Presque Isle to the Solano Stroll in Berkeley, California.
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On an early morning run along a city bike path, I was surprised to see a pickup truck that was slowly patrolling the trail.
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My father is from India, so I grew up eating and loving Indian food.
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Peach season is here! A first bite into one of those luscious orange globes is a high point of our tree harvests.
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Trees and people share a habit of sometimes hanging on to things that should be shed.
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Willow trees are wonderful. They take root easily and grow remarkably quickly. But their life spans are short, evoking the motto that James Dean made famous: "Live fast, die young."
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In the four decades that I’ve studied treetop biology, I’ve always focused on canopy-dwelling plants. But forests also support a fascinating array of arboreal animals.
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There’s an old nursery rhyme that I remember singing as a child.
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As a forest ecologist, I tend to see a woodland as a collection of trees.
