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I had begun to look upon it as a lost art, until Jack and I, taking a walk, stumbled upon a fale '(house) where a pretty woman sat cross-legged before a tilted board, pounding and scraping the wet lengths of stripped white tutuga – a kind of mulberry – Broussonetia papyrifera, if you really want to know.
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The large majority of Canadian forest is boreal, with species such as white spruce, black spruce, aspen (Populus tremuloides), and paper birch (Betula papyrifera) having essentially transcontinental distributions.
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First, the bronze birch borer (Agrilus anxius) has been identified as a species that can cause severe damage to paper birch (Betula papyrifera), and maybe effective in limiting the birch along the southern margin of its distribution [65].
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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In the eastern block woody vegetation is dominated by Combretum and Terminalia species, as well as Anogeissus leiocarpus, Boswellia papyrifera, Lannea schimperi and Stereospermum kunthianum.
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On disturbed sites a new set of species, including paper birch (Betula papyrifera), grey birch (B. populifolia), and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) become more important.
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Paper birch (Betula papyrifera), aspen (Populus tremuloides), and black spruce are typical of disturbed sites.
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However, poorly-drained sites contain muskegs and low lying areas along river channels contain alder (Alnus spp.), cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa), and Alaska paper birch (Betula papyrifera).
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The area to the south of James Bay acts as a transition between the coniferous mixed forests to the south and the tundra to the north, and as such, has a greater diversity of species, including balsam fir (Abies balsamea), white spruce (Picea glauca), and black spruce, quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), and paper birch (Betula papyrifera).
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Closed boreal forests at lower, warmer elevations include white and black spruce, lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), and some paper birch (Betula papyrifera) and aspen (Populus tremuloides).
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Fire occurs frequently, such that forest stands are composed of medium to tall closed stands of black spruce and jack pine (Pinus banksiana) with some paper birch (Betula papyrifera).
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