AltWeeklies Wire
Twilight of the Giants: Old-Growth Hemlocks Under Siegenew

The country's largest Eastern hemlocks -- many of them hundreds of years old -- face a "functional extinction" because of a tiny pest, the hemlock woolly adelgid. Here's the story of one man’s mission to measure and document the trees before they're gone.
Mountain Xpress |
Kent Priestley |
01-15-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment