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1 day ago · Birch Equipment won the 51st annual Ski to Sea race Sunday, as the team’s sea kayaker paddled to the beach in Fairhaven and dashed ashore to ring the bell for the third year in a row. Sea ...
3 days ago · Stumpy the Tree, seen Thursday surrounded by a fence, was removed by National Park Service (NPS) crews beginning a $113 million, three-year-long project to protect the region from rising sea ...
4 days ago · Mangrove, any of certain shrubs and trees that grow in dense thickets or forests along tidal estuaries, in salt marshes, and on muddy coasts and that characteristically have prop roots—i.e., exposed supporting roots. The term ‘mangrove’ also applies to thickets and forests of such plants.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · Scientists say they recently discovered about 40 sequoia trees that have died from beetle infestations, mostly within the national parks. A picture taken on March 9, 2014, shows a tourist posing for a photo next to the General Sherman Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) at Sequoia National Park.
1 day ago · Surprisingly, the area around the Red River contains the most arches east of the Mississippi with 150 known. According to the National Park Service this is second only to Arches National Park itself out in Utah. The Red River has long been carving through this region creating many canyons, bridges and arches out of the sandstone.
2 days ago · Roughly around the time of the Han Dynasty and just prior to the beginning of the Roman Empire, a tree began growing at an elevation of roughly 7,000 feet in what became known as the southern ...
