The hierarchy of voice messages in an interactive voice response system (IVR). The phone tree is the verbal counterpart to the graphical user interface. Poorly designed phone trees drive everyone ...

as is the case with the Methuselah Tree, a bristlecone pine more than 46 centuries old. But it's truly baffling to learn under what conditions it has accomplished this extraordinary feat.

It's a delicate art, and, Tony says, back in the 1960s, one scientist's drill broke off inside the bristlecone pine tree he was sampling. The kit is expensive, and to help him recover the lost ...

The red pine tree, found in North America, can perhaps be best likened to the underwhelming cousin of the more widely known white pine. The qualities of the white pine made it a staple for the early ...

In August of this year, three researchers made a stunning discovery: The world’s largest sugar pine, by volume, was in Yosemite National Park. The discovery marked the end of a four-decade ...

Since pine trees typically shed about one-third of their needles from late summer to early winter, a tree too close to the home spells bad news. While standard gutter guards will block larger ...

An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina ... “Our dedicated teams are on-site, conducting cleanup and repair activities to restart operations as soon as we can ...

But this isn’t National Tree’s only good option. If realism isn’t your cup of tea, we recommend National Tree’s 7.5-foot Winchester White Pine (WCHW7-300-75). We tested this model in our ...

During our testing process, LeafFilter blocked the majority of the debris we used to simulate gutter performance, including tree leaves, pine needles ... gutter repair, installation and cleaning ...

"There is something a little fantastic," wrote Edmund Schulman in the March 1958 National Geographic, "in the persistent ability of a 4,000-year-old tree to ... bristlecone pine is but 60 feet ...

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