As UPS pulls back from rural America, businesses need the US Postal Service even more | Opinion
If an office closes in a city, people can just go a few miles to the next drop-off box. In the country, it can mean driving ...
Inside the Lockerbie sawmill and the challenges it faces
Vicky Allan takes a tour round the sawmill near Lockerbie taking spruce logs and making construction timber and finds it is a lesson in ...
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Ask the Master Gardener: It’s a no-go on wild lady’s slippers for your garden, but some nurseries sell them
They can be found growing in tamarack and spruce bogs, swamps ... multi-stemmed plant with lance-shaped leaves that is 1-2 feet tall. A mature plant will have one to two large flowers that ...
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Grant Jackson leaves Manitoba legislature, eyes House of Commons seat
Progressive Conservative Grant Jackson is leaving his Spruce Woods seat in western Manitoba to run for the federal Conservatives in Brandon-Souris.
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This is the Rockefeller Christmas tree’s surprising fate after it leaves NYC: ‘Just wow’
Ironically, what made the spruce a fantastic Christmas tree also made it structurally weak: The branches that spanned 46 feet in diameter left lots of knots in the wood, so the beams were mainly ...
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Archaeologists are finding mysterious ancient objects on Norway's melting glaciers. Take a look.
Norway is at the forefront of this emerging field of research, called glacial archaeology. With about 4,500 artifacts discovered, the country claims more than half of the planet's glacial ...
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North Fork timber sales see no bids
Davies said both sales included quite a bit of road work and they were also primarily spruce and lodgepole trees. The market for those two species has collapsed. The sales would likely be modified ...