Pine

Stanley’s Pines The year my father’s mother passed away (1958) brought great change to my family. I was five years old when granny died. That was the year dad started constructing a new home in the country, on Cantelou Road, so he could be near his aging father. Our house under construction was on a corner lot next to the thickest grove of trees I’d ever seen. Yes, I’d seen trees before; our city streets had trees. That conglomeration of trees, near our new home, was new to me; there were so…

No major league ballplayer is associated with the term “pine tar” more than Kansas City Royals Hall of Famer George Brett. The pine tar incident is still one of the most bizarre umpiring decisions in recent history. What Happened in the Pine Tar Game With two outs in the top of the 9th inning and The Royals down a run to the Yankees, George Brett stepped up to the plate with a man on first base. Yankees skipper Billy Martin called on his closer, Goose Gossage, to make the final out in the game.…

and pig’s feet. The idea of these features mashed together just seems impossible. This bizarre creature is believed to inhabit Pine Barrens, in Southern New Jersey. How could such a strange creature come into existence? There are many different variations of the Jersey Devil legend, but the more known one tells the story of Mother Jane Leeds. Mother Leeds lived in Pine Barrens in poverty. The year 1735 came by, Mother Leeds found that she was pregnant with her 13th child. She believed this child…

have and it is called THE PINE BEETLE! In order to help the Pine Beetle problem we need to know how the pine beetle destroys trees, how that affects the environment, and what can be done about it. The pine beetle is an insect that is 5 millimeters long. It takes thousands of pine beetles to kill a healthy tree. It only takes 32 pine beetles to kill an unhealthy tree. While inside the tree they make clicking sounds to let the other pine beetles know where they are. Pine beetles eat old…

General Description: Western White Pines are native to Western North America. They tolerate of a verity of soil condition from peat bogs, dry sandy soil to rocky conditions. They are tall, straight, pyramidal shaped tree with bluish-green needle that are in fascicle of 5. The bark is dark gray and platy. ID Characteristic: Some key identification characteristics are the needles, which are straight, flexible and triangular; bluish-green in color and have lines of white spots, which have 5…

Coevolution is the process by which two or more closely interacting species evolve in response to one another. Darwin is attributed with first hypothesizing coevolution in “On the Origin of Species” published in 1859; since that time, coevolution has become one of the cornerstones of modern evolutionary biology. The species that lead to the discovery of coevolution was the Angraecum Sesquipedale, a variety of orchid with a spur extending over 30cm long. When Darwin received a sample from…

Wayward Pines seems like a nice town to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there. This little quaint Idaho town is an impossible place to leave, not because of the spectacular views or idyllic residents or the mighty fine pine they serve, but because the whole town is surrounded by an electric fence. Every road out of town brings you back to Wayward Pines. There is no way out from this town, it would seem that visitors stick around. Adapted from the hit Blake Crouch’s best-selling trilogy of…

Tuff from the Long Valley Caldera eruption which occurred approximately 750,000 years ago (Southworth, 2012), the Poverty Hills, Alabama Hills, and the Owens Valley dry lake bed found on the valley’s southern end. Of particular interest is the Big Pine Volcanic Field which offers great opportunity for relative dating of the Poverty Hills (Fig. 2). The Owens Valley is a sedimentary basin comprised of both igneous material from the west (Sierra Nevada Mountains), and meta-sedimentary material from…

What is my Cultural Identity? That’s a great question that I am not sure I even know the full answers to. I can say there are things that are currently changing in my life that affect it and there are things that have been a strong influence on what makes me the person I am today. To discover my cultural identity we need to take a look at my values and how they developed, Let 's start with the basics. I was raised in a middle class family with strong educational background. I use the term…

Government. The Pine Ridge Reservation is one of the poorest areas in America and suffers great poverty due to the actions of the US Government. The Snyder Act of 1921 charged the US Department of the Interior with responsibility for providing education, medical and social services to many Native nations and tribes, including the Oglala Lakota, yet this Act is not showing any…