In the boreal forests of northern Minnesota, the trees wear beards

With wispy tufts that drape trees like haunted-house cobwebs, old man’s beard lichen can be an unexpected sight in northern ...
Juneau Empire

‘Hair ice’ enlivens an extended fall in Interior Alaska

Just when you thought you’d seen everything in the boreal forest, a reader points out white whiskers sprouting from the ...
Alaska Public Media

As Alaska's boreal forest warms, land managers face tough questions about how, or whether, to respond

Northern ecosystems are seeing some of the planet's most sweeping changes from climate warming. For some animals and plants, that has posed a threat to their very existence and, for humans, a couple ...