Why are there so many different shapes of trees? For some shapes, the function is evident. Evergreen trees, like hemlock, fir ...

German wild plant expert and author of the German-language cookbook "Tasty Trees." As well as lime, the leaves and needles of maple, beech, Douglas fir, spruce, pine, larch and silver fir are also ...

However, with increasing elevation, balsam fir tends to dominate. Near timberline, black spruce joins with balsam in a dwarfed ... Sugar maple, American beech, and yellow birch are the predominant ...

It wasn’t strictly an environmental concern. At the time, balsam fir was second only to the spruce as the tree most used in paper production in Minnesota. Those days are long gone – and that ...