Identifying Winter Trees: A Bark for Every Tree

03/03/2008

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Episode Synopsis

Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand." Nature's genius is nowhere more evident than in the bark of leaf-less trees in winter, for the bark of a tree is no less distinct than the leaves that grace its branches in the summer.