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Article: Balsam fir?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
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- American Forests
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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editor: The picture on page 27 of the Winter 2008 edition of American Forests sure doesn't look like a balsam fir. Notice the sharp needles as contrasted with the real balsam fir on page 28. I believe this seedling is a red spruce or possibly a black spruce. The trees on page 26 look more like spruce than balsam fir but I have never seen a forest site like this outside of Maine. These trees would probably be black spruce in Maine. However, I believe in the adage that "An ...