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unusual facts about balsam fir



Baker Branch Saint John River

Spruce and Balsam Fir trees were bucked into 4-foot (1.2-meter) lengths beginning in 1917 and loaded onto sleds towed by draft animals or log haulers to the nearest river or lake.

Canada balsam

Canada balsam, also called Canada turpentine or balsam of fir, is a turpentine which is made from the resin of the balsam fir tree (Abies balsamea) of boreal North America.

Juvabione

In 1965, Sláma and Carroll Williams made a surprising discovery: paper towels made from the wood of the balsam fir (Abies balsamea, Fig. 1) released vapors that elicited a potent effect on hemipteran bugs of the Pyrrhocoridae family.


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Anticosti Island

Balsam fir is slowly being replaced with white spruce because of intensive grazing done by deer and by periodic outbreaks of Hemlock Looper and Spruce Budworm.