Tag: Trees
4 article(s) found with this tag.
A blighted Northwest icon
Spring 2012
Last March, Gary Chastagner was driving around southwest Oregon
scouting test plots for a study of madrone, the gnarly, reddish-brown
tree found up and down the West Coast. A variety of diseases had been
hitting the trees in recent year...
Categories: Agriculture, Botany
Tags: Madrone, Trees, Diseases
The Lowell Elm
Spring 2012
Harriet Bryan, wife of Washington Agricultural College president Enoch
Bryan, planted the Lowell Elm in 1893. She had brought the seedling to
her new home from Elmwood, the estate of James Russell Lowell, near
Harvard University, where he...
Categories: WSU history, Campus life
Tags: Trees, Lowell Elm
Trees return to Ireland
Fall 2007
Once upon a time, Ireland was mostly forest. In prehistoric and
early historic times, trees covered an estimated 90-95 percent of
the landscape. But English invasions, rebellions, and industrial
demands moved the landscape toward its modern auster...
Categories: Forestry
Tags: Trees, Ireland
Magpie Forest: Protecting a piece of the past
Winter 2005
Magpie Forest is like something out of the Wizard of Oz,
a strange green land in the middle of a field.Nestled in a 33-acre parcel of wheat north of Pullman, the
14-acre tract is a remnant of the original Palouse prairie. Last
spring, Washington S...
Categories: Environmental studies, Forestry
Tags: Wildlife, Trees, Palouse