The poison hemlock (Conium maculatum L.) is a dangerous plant that grows throughout the United States. Hemlock poisoning occurs after ingesting any part of the plant, such as the seeds ...
In particular, the Pratt tannery alone used 100,000 cords of hemlock bark from roughly 400,000 trees during a 20-year period. Since the bark was the only desirable portion of the tree, once trees were ...
It was cut down around 8 a.m. Thursday. The tree joining what is now NBC's annual tradition is an 11-ton Norway Spruce. It's 74-feet tall and 43-feet wide, according to Rockefeller Center.
Ella Katona is a student at Kent State University and one of 10 Pittsburgh Media Partnership summer interns. A non-native invasive insect, the hemlock woolly adelgid, is causing significant damage to ...