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	alder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alder, a genus of plants (Alnus) belonging to the birch family Betulaceae.
		Alder bloom is one of the first sources of pollen and nectar for bee species, especially honeybees, which use it for spring buildup.
		Alder is a preferred wood for charcoal making, formerly used in the manufacture of gunpowder, or for smelting metal ores, now used primarily for cooking.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /alder.html (402 words)

	Green Alder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The flowers are catkins, appearing late in spring after the leaves emerge (unlike other alders which flower before leafing out); the male catkins are pendulous, 4-8 cm long, the female catkins 1 cm long and 0.7 cm broad when mature in late autumn, in clusters of 3-10 on a branched stem.
		The Green Alder has a shallow root system, and is marked not only by vigorous production of stump suckers, but also by root suckers.
		Green Alder survives the avalanches through its ability to re-grow from the roots and broken stumps.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Green_Alder (322 words)

	Shrubs of Wisconsin: Alnus viridis, green alder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The female aments (catkins) of green alder are covered by exterior bud scales, unlike speckled alder in which the aments are lacking the outer scales (naked buds).
		Green alder flowers open as the leaves unfold, much later than speckled alder in any given area and the single-seeded dry fruits (achenes) are winged.
		Green Alder is much less common in Wisconsin than speckled alder, being relatively common mostly in the counties near Lake Superior.
	www.uwgb.edu /biodiversity/herbarium/shrubs/alnvir01.htm (158 words)

	Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alders are pioneers in disturbed areas, as the roots contain a nitrogen-fixing bacteria which enables it to quickly grow into impenetrable thickets.
		Alder is the wood of choice for smoking meat and fish, and had and still has many Native uses.
		Alder wood is soft and straight-grained, and used for carving feast bowls, masks, rattles, etc. The natives used the springy limbs for snares and traps.
	www.nps.gov /klgo/flora/alder.htm (213 words)

	Green Alder -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Green Alder (Alnus viridis) is an (North temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the rot-resistant wood) alder with a wide range across the cooler parts of the (The hemisphere north of the equator) Northern Hemisphere.
		It is a large (A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches) shrub or small (A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms) tree 3-12 m tall with smooth grey bark even in old age.
		It is sometimes used for (The conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting)) afforestation on infertile soils which it enriches by means of its (additional info and facts about nitrogen-fixing) nitrogen-fixing nodules, while not growing large enough to compete with the intended timber crop.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/green_alder.htm (412 words)

	Bran
		Green alder-branches make good whistles … At Harlech, where the head sang for seven years, there is a mill-stream running past the Castle rock, a likely place for a sacred alder-grove.
		The alder was, and is, celebrated for yielding three fine dyes: red from its bark, green from its flowers, brown from its twigs: typifying fire, water and earth.
		In Cormac's tenth-century Glossary of obsolete terms the alder is called ro-eim, which is glossed as 'that which reddens the face': from which it may be deduced that the 'crimson-stained heroes' of the Welsh Triads, who were sacred kings, were connected with Bran's alder cult.
	www.ynysprydein.org /bran/alderims.htm (758 words)

	Royal Forestry Society of England, Wales and Northern Ireland Home Page
		Alders belong to the scientific genus Alnus which live throughout the cooler regions of the Northern Hemisphere, southwards over the high mountains of central America and down to the Andes.
		Like all alders, it is a strong light demander and withstands exposure and pollution well, copes better with drier, calcareous soils than its relatives and is a good landscape tree.
		Similar to poplar, alder wood is one of the weakest hardwoods.
	www.rfs.org.uk /thirdlevel.asp?ThirdLevel=163&SecondLevel=33 (681 words)

	Alder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alders are helped in their colonisation of damp by their ability to form adventitious roots, similar to the stilt roots of certain tropical trees.
		Once established, the Alder is not easily rooted out of the ground again, which is the reason why foresters used to seldom mixed it with other trees in a plantation in the past, but reserved it often for damp waste grounds, which would be costly to prepare for the planting of other crops.
		Alder is also associated with the energy of Aries and Mars and the strengthening power of the Sun in the spring, its journey throughout the summer and then its waning power.
	www.the-tree.org.uk /BritishTrees/alder.htm (6848 words)

	Alnus rubra english
		Alder (Alnus spp.) is represented by 20 to 30 species, with 15 species in North and Tropical America and 15 species in Eurasia.
		Red alder is the most common hardwood in the Pacific Northwest and the largest of the American alders.
		Green lumber should be carefully stacked for air-drying or promptly kiln-dried to prevent damage from microbial stain.
	www2.fpl.fs.fed.us /TechSheets/HardwoodNA/htmlDocs/alnusreng.html (757 words)

	Alder - TheBestLinks.com - Andes, Bee, Cooking, Chile, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)

Alder, is the common name of a genus of flowering plants (Alnus) belonging to the birch family (Family Betulaceae).

Alders establish symbioses with the nitrogen-fixing Actinobacteria Frankiella alni.

This bacteria converts atmospheric nitrogen into soil-soluable nitrates which can be utilised by the alder, and favorably enhances the soil fertility generally.

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	Alder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants (Alnus) belonging to the birch family (Family Betulaceae).
		Alder catkins are one of the first sources of pollen for bee species, especially honeybees, which use it for spring buildup.
		Alder is used as a food plant by some Lepidoptera species, including Emperor Moth, Oak Hook-tip, Large Emerald, May Highflyer, Autumnal Moth, Purple Thorn, The Engrailed, Common White Wave, Common Wave, Lime Hawk-moth, Coxcomb Prominent, Yellow-tail and Buff Ermine.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Alder.htm (585 words)

	botany/alnus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alders grow well in moist soil near ponds and other wet ground.
		Alders are often seen with many trunks; however, they can be trained when young to have only one.
		laciniata, pyramidalis, Imperialis; A. hirsuta (Manchurian Alder); A. incana (Speckled Alder) and var.
	www.botany.com /alnus.html (371 words)

	The Alder Tree
		As a tree which ‘bleeds’, alder is bound up in the legends of the Rollright stones in Oxfordshire where the King Stone, which stands alone, was once reputedly associated with a grove of alder trees.
		Alder was anciently renowned as the best wood to use for whistles and pipes.
		Such was the reputed harmony of the music played on alder pipes that the topmost branch of the alder tree became known as the ‘oracular singing head’ of Bran.
	www.thornr.demon.co.uk /bran/alderims.html (836 words)

	UsesOfWood
		Green Alder branches can make good whistles and panpipes, an important attribute for a tree to possess in the days before mass entertainment.
		Alder poles were a favourite timber for underground foundations in damp or wet conditions.
		Red alder wood is used in the manufacture of fine furniture, specialized veneers, plywood, paper and pallets.
	www.the-tree.org.uk /TreeCultivation&Uses/Uses/usesofwood.htm (3737 words)

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	Section 1: Large shade trees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alder is a good selection for poor soils since it is able to fix atmospheric nitrogen and tolerates both acid or slightly alkaline conditions.
		Green ash adapts to a wide range of soils and cultural conditions.
		Foliage is glossy, deep green and matures to outstanding fall color from orange to deep scarlet.
	www.conservation.state.mo.us /forest/urban/urbantre/1lg.html (4063 words)

	Results for Alder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kurt Alder Kurt Alder was born in Königshütte, Upper Silesia,...
		The Alder tree (Alnus glutinosa) is one of the sacred trees of...
		In folklore the Alder is known as the 'King of the Waters' with the 'Willow'; tree as it's...
	www.casimiro.com /directorio/search/Alder (308 words)

	Research Branch - Publications - alder
		Reproductive characteristics of green alder in northwestern Ontario.
		Effects of Sitka alder retention and removal on the growth of young lodgepole pine in the central interior of British Columbia (EP 1185): Establishment report.
		Effects of Sitka alder on the growth and foliar nutrition of young lodgepole pine in the central interior of British Columbia.
	www.for.gov.bc.ca /hre/pubs/index/003.htm (1098 words)

	Vance Publishing's W&WP magazine - Wood of the Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alder, also known as red alder and Western alder, is one of the most common of the Pacific Coast commercial timbers.
		Alder matures in 25 to 40 years and then starts to deteriorate by 60 to 80 years of age.
		Alder is regarded as a good medium for smoking meats and fish and is used in cooking and barbecuing in the same way as hickory and mesquite, to add flavor.
	www.iswonline.com /wwp/wom/alder.cfm (890 words)

	Shoreland restoration - Indigeneous plants - Alder and Red-osier Dogwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		alder is rarer, its tolerance for drier, gravelly soil makes it well suited to stabilize the shoreline.
		Rough alder can reach a height of 5 meters, Green alder mostly doesn’t grow taller than 3 meters.
		Green alder is very adaptable and can also be planted near the water like Rough alder, Shrubby Willows and Sweet Gale.
	www.fapel.org /english/anrive8.htm (452 words)

	Missoulian - Western Montana's News Online
		My friends and I learned to fell a green tree, buck it to the appropriate stove lengths, and haul it to the woodpile for splitting into manageable chunks; green alder splits more readily than cured.
		After a few months sheltered from the omnipresent rain, the split alder was at the ideal moisture content for efficient, safe burning.
		Regardless of species, green or wet wood makes for poor firewood, both because it burns too slowly and because burning it contributes to creosote deposits in chimneys, setting the stage for chimney fires.
	www.missoulian.com /articles/2005/01/15/athome/hg01.prt (867 words)

	Cook Inlet Areawide 1999, Final Finding of the Director (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These aquatic plants range from unicellular green and blue-green algae, and more visible filamentous green algae to sedges, rushes, grasses, and other higher plants, many of which flower in their watery habitat.
		Alder and willow are more important nutritionally in summer than birch leaves, while in winter, browse species of aspen and low-bush cranberry are more nutritionally important than birch twigs (Boggs, et al., 1997:180).
		By 1996, the herd had increased to 96 animals, and the 1998 estimate for the KLCH is 124 animals, indicating a possible rebound in the population due to management efforts (Spraker, 1998).
	www.dog.dnr.state.ak.us /oil/products/publications/cookinlet/cia1999_final_finding/chap3.htm (13262 words)

	Alder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The common alder (Alnus glutinosa) grows with a bushy shape, with several stalks arising from the same base.
		Its leaves are dark green and hearth-shaped; at first sight, they resemble those of the hazel, although the latter are tenderer and paler in color.
		Other common varieties are the green alder, the gray alder and, in Italy, the Italian or Napolitan alder.
	www.macalu.it /verde/pagine/alder.htm (89 words)

	Green Alder, Alnus viridis ssp. crispa
		Alder invasion and persistence are favored by fire, but total recovery is slow.
		Fungi: All of the alders associate symbiotically with species of the actinomycete Frankia, leading to the formation of nodules on the roots of the plants and the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen.
		Muskrat, beaver, cottontail, and snowshoe hares feed on alder twigs and foliage.
	www.rook.org /earl/bwca/nature/shrubs/alnuscrispa.html (1120 words)

	Alnus crispa - Green Alder
		A tall and spreading shrub, 3 - 8 m tall; bark thin, dull, reddish to greyish brown, smooth or slightly grooved; twigs slender, yellowish green to reddish brown, coated with very short grey hairs; buds slender, stalked, covered with grey hairs.
		Well-drained, moist soils along streams, in ravines and on moist hillsides in eastern forests; common on recently cut-over forest land; from lake country of Manitoba to eastern Saskatchewan and NW Ontario.
		The stalked cones of the Green Alder stand it apart from these species; the leaf margins with fine, regularly spaced teeth contrast with the coarsely, double-toothed leaf margins of the Speckled Alder and the leaves are less taper-pointed than those of the Paper Birch.
	www.borealforest.org /shrubs/shrub2.htm (221 words)

	Northeast Wetland Flora
		Field Marks: This alder is a tree with 1-5 female spikes in a cluster, the flowers blooming in the spring.
		It differs from the seaside alder in having straight rather than curved veins.
		Leaves: Alternate, simple, dark green, ovate to nearly spherical, rounded at the tip, rounded or somewhat tapering to the base, finely or coarsely toothed, without hairs, up to 6 inches long, sometimes nearly as broad, with a stalk up to 1 inch long.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/1999/neflor/species/5/alnuglut.htm (175 words)

	Hazel Alder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		—Hazel alder is found in swamps and along the marshy banks of streams from New England south to Florida and Texas and westward to Ohio and Minnesota.
		—The hazel alder, although it sometimes attains the height of a tree, is more frequently a shrub from 5 to 20 feet high with smooth, brownish-gray bark.
		The male flowers are borne in drooping and the female in erect catkins.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/herbhunters/alder.html (136 words)

	Mount Rainier National Park (Nature Notes)
		They inhabit the alders extending along the river bottoms where their continuous song is heard throughout the spring and summer.
		These warbling vireos are plainly dressed and their colors blend perfectly with the green leaves of the alder; they have no contrasting colors, being grayish on the back and white below with a faint line over the eye.
		In the park more green moss is used as material and the nest is lined with coarse grasses instead of cottonwood down.
	www.nps.gov /mora/notes/vol17-3-4c20.htm (2548 words)

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