In Alaska, the small stems of tamarack will be used for dog sled runners; in Alberta, Canada, ... Western larch shrinkage from green to 6 percent MC is 6.3 percent tangentially ...

The exotic tree portion of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ boreal arboretum includes species from Finland and the Yukon.

A larch has one of the widest ranges of all North American conifers. ... It can be found in isolated pockets in West Virginia and Maryland and in disjunct areas of interior Alaska and the Yukon.

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