Ironically, what made the spruce a fantastic Christmas tree also made it structurally weak: The branches that spanned 46 feet in diameter left lots of knots in the wood, so the beams were mainly used ...

To avoid the rough, hummocky ice that covered the river channel ... And there was no certainty I would find a dry tree. For -more than 300 years this small stand of spruce has been kept constantly ...

A modest group of ducks and coots had gathered in a small hole in the ice in the centre of the lake. But it was actually the details in the lake’s frozen surface - fine, random cracks forming a ...

Handling a towering spruce tree over 15 meters tall and 10 meters wide requires expert techniques and strategic planning. The challenge is to safely reduce its massive size while working within a ...

Most needle-leaved trees, known as conifers, which include pines and spruce, retain needles year-round ... timed drop in temperatures can be devastating to living tree cells since ice crystals can ...

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At the intersection of N. Center and E. Ninth streets, this spruce tree was planted in soil from Civil War battlefields and dedicated to the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic by the National ...