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unusual facts about Tree line


Timberline

Tree line, the edge of a habitat at which trees are capable of growing


Gaultheria mucronata

In volcanic areas of southern Chile Gaultheria mucronata is one of the dominant plant species above the tree line.

Imbabura Volcano

Cattle are also an important commodity, and much of the land on and around Imbabura, especially the high-altitude meadows above the tree line, is used for grazing.

Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador

Although located at the same latitude as Ketchikan on North America’s west coast or Moscow in Europe, the influence of the Labrador Current gives Nain a marginal subarctic climate that is very close to a polar climate (ET), which creates the southernmost tree line in the northern hemisphere on the adjacent coast.

Sierras de Córdoba

High exposure causes the limits of tree growth to be quite low at about 2000 metres, above which an extensive alpine grassland dominated by various species of Stipa predominates.

Trail blazing

In the Presidential Range of New Hampshire's White Mountains, for example, cairns are found at ten-foot (three-meter) intervals along trails above treeline, so that hikers forced to crawl by heavy winds and occasional infamously lethal weather can find their way to safety.


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Fragaria cascadensis

The strawberry is in the Oregon Cascades Mountains from the Columbia River to Crater Lake, at elevations of about 3,000 feet up to tree line.

Hudsonian Godwit

Their breeding habitat is the far north near the tree line in northwestern Canada and Alaska, also on the shores of Hudson Bay.

Searches for Noah's Ark

In 1876, James Bryce, historian, statesman, diplomat, explorer, and Professor of Civil Law at Oxford, climbed above the tree line and found a slab of hand-hewn timber, four feet long and five inches thick, which he identified as being from the Ark.

William Kreutzer, Jr.

Kreutzer was hiding in the tree line, adjacent to a housing area, alongside Towle Stadium APF field, and eventually wounded 18 soldiers with a .223 caliber/5.56 Ball NATO AR-15/ M-16 A1, a .22