An Oak Tree

If you've ever cut down a tree or had a tree fall, you were probably left wondering how to get rid of the stump. While some people leave an old tree stump in place if you want to have enough room to plant another tree, or if you don't want to have to deal with that tree continually regrowing (which some trees do and some don't), you are going to have to get rid of that stump. There are two ways to get rid of a tree stump, which is either stump grinding or a complete stump removal. Here are the…

It does not, in fact, catch me, instead I am falling. A branch knocks me back onto the ravine wall. I slide down, getting covered in mud and dead leaves, hitting rocks and stumps, tumbling down into the dark. My arm gets snags on something. A fallen tree. A gnarled branch. It screeches me to a halt. When my mind catches up to my halted body. I move my arm close to my face and look at it. Beads of blood emerge like seeds sprouting in spring. They grow and burst, flowering down my arm. I follow…

Many propose that the evolution of Mistletoe comes from the old American tale of kissing the one you love under it during Christmas time, but the evolution of mistletoe goes deeper than that. Mistletoe is often considered pests that kill trees and devalue natural habitats, but some species have been recognized as ecological keystone species, which are organisms that have a overly pervasive influence over their community. Mistletoes is known for sink their roots and trees like their ancestors…

like a tree, but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it make it bend— trees are flexible, so they don’t snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch— perfect trees don’t exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.” (Anderson pg.153). Meaning, people go through many things in their life and hide their scars where no one will notice and raise any questions that pass the mind. You may see a tree on the outside and it looks like a normal, healthy tree.…

Tropical Rainforest Damage Tropical rainforests are home to over half the world 's species such as butterflies, spiders, worms, snakes, frogs, parrots, sloths, and jaguars. There’s three levels of the rainforest; the forest floor where plants don’t grow because there is almost no sunlight. Understory layer where little sunshine reaches this area so the plants need to have big leaves to capture sunlight. Canopy layer where most of the trees have oval leaves that are pointy. Then the tallest…

become blind to this but when you can see that we are all equal and connected. That moment in time is a revelation for a lot of people I know it was for me. Seeing those trees then had no meaning but looking back it’s like a tree of lights moment. Dillard describes the tree of lights as a bright vivid image that changes your view on something. So even though it didn’t occur to me at the time what I was…

Malicious A twisted tree trunk protrudes out of the silt like earth, covered in crude knots and lanky dead branches; the trunk hovers over the small stretch of land it sits upon. The rough, callous bark of the foreboding tree a dark hazel splattered with sections of sunken grooves. A shadow casts upon the intruding tree, darkening the bottom section of the once splendid trunk to a sinister shade of black. The upper top half on the trunk splintered, as if its own structure and size had betrayed…

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Long Walk to the Lilac Sea Isadora suggested that she go alone to find the dragons, since she was a fire spirit who could flash to the sea undetected in a puff of smoke, but I refused. "Either we all go together, or nobody goes." "All right. Well then, here 's the plan. You and Emma start walking and I 'll fly ahead, find Captain Billy Bluebird and the Kidd and have them sail to shore. That way, by the time you arrive he 'll be waiting and we can set out immediately."…

spruce, and Western red cedar dominate Haida Gwaii’s forests (Banner et al., 2014). However, the deciduous red alder tree dominated the forest at the beginning of the trail as the earlier part of the trail was new growth. This is because red alder thrives in disturbed sites such as old logging areas, and it is fast growing (Pojar & MacKinnon, 1994). According to Tollas, the red alder tree contains a brownish red dye that was used for cedar weaving. Next up was the Western hemlock, Tollas…

Mor humus (Banner et al, 2014). In comparison, the montane variant of CWHwh, CWHwh2, covers approximately 7% of Haida Gwaii’s total land area and is found at higher elevations, between 350 and 600 m (Banner et al., 2014). Presence of the yellow-cedar tree is one of the key features of the montane variant that distinguishes it from the submontane variant (Banner et al., 2014). However, other distinguishing features of CWHwh2 include the presence of heron’s-bill and liverwort mosses (Grayston,…