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  • Cover of the "Can We Grow Now?" article featuring a close up photo of a bristlecone pine cone.
    Bristlecone pines have an interesting relationship with fire. When a fire occurs, it may open a once-closed area to sunlight.…
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    Can We Grow Now? Helping Bristlecone Pine Trees To Take Root and Grow

  • Cover for the 'Cedar Waxing or Waning' article. The main image is a photograph of a heavily wooded forest.
    As the climate changes, the tree species living in a forest may also change. This change means that some trees…
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    Cedar Waxing or Waning? The Potential to Save Yellow-Cedar Trees Using Adaptive Management

  • PDF Preview of Crossword Puzzle
    Test your knowledge on ecosystems, vegetation, and erosion.
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    Crossword – Ecosystem Services

  • PDF preview of Hawai'i-Pacific Islands crossword puzzle
    Test your knowledge with a crossword puzzle after reading the Hawai’i-Pacific Islands edition of Natural Inquirer.
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    Crossword – Hawai’i-Pacific Islands

  • PDF preview for the Woolly Bully Crossword
    Test your knowledge on water, invasive species, and ecology.
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    Crossword – Woolly Bully

  • The pdf cover of the 'Don't Judge a Soil' article which features a photo of vegetation burning.
    When a wildfire burns across a forest, logs and stumps on the ground may completely burn up. When this happens…
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    Don’t Judge a Soil by Its Color: Exploring Forest Soil Following a Wildfire

  • Cover for Don't Litter the Stream. It's a photo of a stream in a very green wooded area.
    From 1920 to 1950, a tree species called albizia (Falcataria moluccana) was brought to Hawai‘i from islands located north and…
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    Don’t Litter the Stream: An Invasive Tree Species and a Hawaiian Stream Food Web

  • tree root diagram
    The scientists in this study wanted to know how rising levels of carbon dioxide in the troposphere might affect the…
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    FACELook! Exploring the Relationship Between Carbon, Photosynthesis, and the Roots of Trees

  • FACTivity Born To Be Wild
    The question students will answer in the FACTivity is: What are the advantages and disadvantages of different ways to protect…
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    FACTivity – Born to Be Wild

  • PDF Preview of the FACTivity from Born To Be Wild Spanish version
    The question students will answer in the FACTivity is: What are the advantages and disadvantages of different ways to protect…
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    FACTivity – Born to Be Wild (Spanish)

  • PDF Preview of the Moving On Up FACTivity
    The question you will answer in this FACTivity is: What is the geographic distribution of a particular tree species?
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    FACTivity – Moving on Up

  • illustration of children weighing a house on one side of a scale and a bird on the other side
    The California gnatcatcher is a little bird with a big problem. Its habitat has been reduced 80 percent by people…
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    Fighting Fire with Fire: Protecting the Homes of People and Birds