Monthly Archives: July 2013

A Tree Falls in the Forest

When we returned from an overnight Thanksgiving celebration last November, we found a tree above our cabin had broken in the wind. As often happens in this forest’s ecology, shelf fungus had rotted a section of the lower trunk, weakening, … Continue reading

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Foundroot On the Homestead

The Southeast Alaska State Fair is underway in Haines. Each year it brings old friends to town, but it often brings new friends as well. When Foundroot came down from Palmer to exhibit at the fair, they came out to … Continue reading

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