Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The native range of the Tamarack, or Larix laricina, occupies the coldest ...

The tamarack, or eastern larch, is a deciduous evergreen tree that sheds its needles in the fall, only to regrow them the following spring, forming a whorl at the end of the twig, which makes ...

The season of dazzling hillsides ablaze with vivid, colorful, autumnal foliage is all but over. There may be three more weeks before the winter solstice, but already most of our trees are showing ...

Tamarack is a tree with a number of aliases – hackmatack, Eastern larch, or if you’re from northern Maine and feeling contrary, juniper. Whatever you call it, this scraggly tree, easy to overlook for ...

SEELEY LAKE - Gus is a tree of many faces. On Saturday, and for perhaps the last eight or nine centuries, the behemoth western larch put on a happy one: west side, 25 feet up, one black but placid eye ...