We had a bit of fun last week, playing in a New Jersey small town park, grandsons on the playground, and grandpa scoping out ...

The arborescent gymnosperms are the most prevalent trees in one-third of the world's forests, and have dominated the Earth's forest ecosystems through much of evolutionary time. They encompass over 70 ...

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as well as the giant redwoods and sequoias of California in the family Taxodiaceae. Their normal life cycle is for portions of the forest to burn down periodically, perhaps every 100 years or so ...