When trees die, that process is reversed, and the carbon dioxide stored in the wood is slowly released into the atmosphere. Just 15 nonnative pests, including woolly adelgid, threaten to destroy ...

Stunning wood sculpture is cast from a living 150-year-old giant hemlock tree. Design Technology Other Gadgets. 12/11/2015. under Art, Environment, Other Gadgets; ...

Since the bark was the only desirable portion of the tree, once trees were cut down and bark removed, the remaining lots of wood were left to rot in the forest. Ultimately, the tanning industry began ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — If you have hemlock trees on your property, the time to protect them from a deadly invasive insect is approaching. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says ...

Several dying hemlock trees in Lake Harbor Park spotted on July 25, 2022. DNR expert Drew Rayner says the hemlock woolly adelgid is the likely cause. (Matt Jaworowski/WOOD TV8) ...

Its scientific name is "Tsuga canadensis."The eastern hemlock was named the state tree in 1931.These trees are slow-growing and long-lived, taking 250 to 300 years to reach maturity.

Tiny cotton ball-looking masses clinging to the branch of a hemlock tree can mean the death of their host and danger to the forest around them. An invasive insect has been spreading along Michigan ...

Shenandoah is haunted by ghosts. Just 15 years ago, the eastern hemlock tree, the mighty Redwood of the East, was a scenic highlight of Virginia’s Skyline Drive, creating the shady groves that ...

Blozan and Riddle had spent the better part of the last two months in Cataloochee Valley, measuring Eastern hemlock trees. In early December 2006, along a feature called Big Fork Ridge, the two ...

My husband was crouched down in brush, inspecting a round of wood. “See? I told you.” I had counted 130 rings, too. Settlers probably logged the old-growth trees for the shingle mills in ...