A Year in the Wonderland of Trees

Twelve months in the woods — why leaves turn, how squirrels bank their acorns, what the winds plant and the April rains conjure — nature writing for young wood scouts, one month at a time.

The Winds and the Woods: March

8 pages in this part of Wonderland of Trees.

The Winds and the Woods: March

I wonder, sometimes, if it's because the trees do so much for us that we're so apt to fall into the habit of doing little or nothing for…

The Winds and the Woods: March: Black

TREES AS ATHLETES Of course if you happen to be born a Black Spruce, and your home is on the edge of the treeless plains of the far north…

The Winds and the Woods: March: Beech

The Elm and the Beech, among others, grow regular "buttresses" on the lateral roots that bear the brunt of the struggle with the winds…

The Winds and the Woods: March: Wings

II. THE WINGS OF THE WIND One thing the foresters had to learn by experience in selecting the groups to be left for "mother-trees" was that…

The Winds and the Woods: March: Linden

The Linden has a regular flying-machine, a monoplane, and one that carries several passengers at a time. In ordinary winds the wings of…

The Winds and the Woods: March: Locust

QUEER HOOP-CHASING BY THE WIND SPRITES But the seeds of a tree don't necessarily have to have wings in order to be helped along by the…

The Winds and the Woods: March: Seattle

Very picturesque is the method employed by the city fathers of Seattle to build up a better watershed near the source of the Cedar River…

The Winds and the Woods: March: Arbor

How are the trees that have been set out on Arbor Day around your school getting on? Not at all? What is the trouble?

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