Trees can be identified in winter by observing their needles, bark, branching patterns, and buds. Distinctive bark, such as ...

When we think of bark on a tree, we tend to compare it to the skin of a human. The primary function of both bark and skin is to protect the material within and beneath it. In Grade 7, we learned that ...

About 6,000 years ago, people living beside Alpine lakes spat out lumps of black, sticky chewing gum. That gum was birch tar, a pitch made by heating birch bark with very little air. Now scientists ...

Roughly 10,500 years ago, a teenage girl popped a piece of ancient “gum” into her mouth and started chewing. She probably had brown hair and brown eyes, and lived in what is now Estonia. That’s the ...

Birch bark tar found at a site in southwestern Estonia has led to researchers for the first time extracting human DNA, offering a fascinating new insight into the region's more distant past. The ...

In early September, radio industry veteran Tom Birch and his Lakes Media first made it known that “illegal translator interference” was impacting the reach of a Clarksville, Va.-licensed FM with ...

With the help of students from the Under One Sky Friendship Centre, Shane Perley-Dutcher constructed a 15-foot, traditional Wolastoqey birch bark canoe with materials harvested off the land. 'Cultural ...

If you are looking for a tree with white bark for your garden or trying to identify a tree that you have recently seen, this page is designed to help. White-barked trees have an otherworldly beauty ...

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