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  • Article cover for Batter Up! Features an image of children playing baseball and a mechanical engineer holding up two bats and 3 baseballs.
    In “Batter Up,” learn about how engineers designed a test to determine baseball bat breakage rates for different types of…
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    Batter Up: Investigating What Type of Wood Makes the Best Baseball Bat

  • A black and white illustration of a group of beetle larvae sleeping inside a tree trunk.
    Mountain pine beetles are important to the Western United States. They have a very special life cycle that includes staying…
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    Beetles Are Supercool! Understanding the Life Cycle of Mountain Pine Beetles

  • PDF preview of the Spanish version of "Beetles Are Supercool"
    Mountain pine beetles are important to the Western United States. They have a very special life cycle that includes staying…
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    Beetles Are Supercool! Understanding the Life Cycle of Mountain Pine Beetles (Spanish)

  • 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

  • Caribbean Cruise cover for the article. The main image is of a stream bed.
    Particulate organic matter (POM), which consists of small pieces of twigs, leaves, soil, and other items found in the water,…
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    Caribbean Cruise: Examining the Movement and Quality of Organic Matter Over Time From Two Caribbean Watersheds

  • Caves LIVE a Distance Learning Adventure
    A world of wonder awaits just below the surface, and this distance learning adventure explores these amazing places. Specially adapted…
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    Caves LIVE

  • 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 the Chew On This article cover
    In this research study, scientists try to understand the impact of termites on forest wood decomposition in the Southern United…
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    Chew on This! Measuring the Impact of Termites on Forest Wood

  • Illustration of a building site where a yellow tractor is dropping tree trunks into a wood chipper, that is then processing wood chips to a red truck.
    In the Western United States, many of the forests have too many small trees. These small trees increase the risk…
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    Chip and Truck: Comparing the Cost of Using Trees to Heat Buildings

  • A fusiform rust gall on a branch.
    Fusiform Rust Disease is one of the most destructive diseases to pine forests in the southeastern United States. Research on…
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    Controlling the Rust Is a Must! Detection of a Major Gene for Rust Resistance to Fusiform Rust Disease

  • PDF preview of the Spanish version of "Controlling the Rust Is a Must!"
    Fusiform Rust Disease is one of the most destructive diseases to pine forests in the southeastern United States. Research on…
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    Controlling the Rust Is a Must! Detection of a Major Gene for Rust Resistance to Fusiform Rust Disease (Spanish)

  • PDF preview of "Cream of the Crop" article
    The research in this monograph looks at the use of prairie strips, which are strips of native prairie plants that…
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    Cream of the Crop: Assessing the Environmental Benefits of Prairie Strips