As a second generation Christmas tree farmer, Jefferey Pollard is used to cutting trees. But this year, before the harvest could even start, his skills were needed away from the family farm in ... You either like the look of a tree that has been pollarded, or you do not.

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It's not a natural look. This time of year, a pollarded tree presents a trunk capped by a clubbed head, or a trunk with short ... Napa Valley Register: Pollarding trees can useful and, to some, pretty this time of year Pollarding trees can useful and, to some, pretty this time of year The Advocate: After surviving Hurricane Helene, North Carolina Christmas trees hit the Lafayette market After surviving Hurricane Helene, North Carolina Christmas trees hit the Lafayette market The Klukwan giant holds the national record for black cottonwood diameter. Its nearest rival, a tree near Salem, Oregon, does hold the national height record.

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The Klukwan giant belies the belief that trees tend to get smaller the farther north one goes. Both balsam poplar and cottonwood have value for fuel wood, pulp and lumber. Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...

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