By Benjamin Weiner
Sometime in early March, I noticed that the ground around my chicken coop and kitchen garden was littered with gray needles, and, looking up, it occurred to me that the fir tree might be dead.
By Lawrence J. Winship and Josia Gertz DeChiara For the Gazette
Field walks in the forest ecology class at Hampshire College in Amherst were often like murder mysteries, in very slow motion. Which trees were thriving, which were diseased, which had died — and what was the prime suspect?
by Lawrence J. Winship
What made the pine trees take such an odd, curvy shape? In short, snow and ice! But there is much more to the story. Several factors came into play, in the correct sequence, to shape the trees, and perhaps that is why their appearance is so startling and rare.
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