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Posted: 2/17/2015 9:51:40 PM EDT
Do you have hardwood trees and nut trees up there?  I was watching a TV show about Alaska and they were smoking fish with something called Alder and it looked like a soft wood. Down here in the south we smoke with pecan, hickory, and fruit trees.

It also looked like they were cutting fir trees to burn in their heaters. That's a huge no no down here. The fir trees here cause a big creosote build up that is dangerous.

I know -0- about your part of the world.

Thanks.
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Do you have hardwood trees and nut trees up there?  I was watching a TV show about Alaska and they were smoking fish with something called Alder and it looked like a soft wood. Down here in the south we smoke with pecan, hickory, and fruit trees.

It also looked like they were cutting fir trees to burn in their heaters. That's a huge no no down here. The fir trees here cause a big creosote build up that is dangerous.

I know -0- about your part of the world.

Thanks.
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Technically, birch and alder are hardwood but it is still a soft hardwood.  Everything else is soft, spruce, cottonwood and the like.

If I remember high school biology right it is because the short growing seasons don't work well with hardwoods.
Link Posted: 2/18/2015 3:22:58 AM EDT
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Birch makes great firewood after 2 or 3 years split & stacked
Link Posted: 2/18/2015 10:19:44 AM EDT
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Aren't there two kinds of birch? One (regular white birch) that grows in the normal (lower) soil and one that grows in the permafrost (upper) soil? Going down a road in the hills above Fairbanks, the upper side of the road on one side of the freeze line was one kind of tree and the lower road (warmer soil) was a different kind.

I have a bad memory, so it could be a different kind of tree, and my Google-fu is weak this morning.
Link Posted: 2/18/2015 3:39:46 PM EDT
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Aren't there two kinds of birch? One (regular white birch) that grows in the normal (lower) soil and one that grows in the permafrost (upper) soil? Going down a road in the hills above Fairbanks, the upper side of the road on one side of the freeze line was one kind of tree and the lower road (warmer soil) was a different kind.

I have a bad memory, so it could be a different kind of tree, and my Google-fu is weak this morning.
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you can definitly see the differance in tree quality when you get in the hills north of town, you can get on a ridge and  it is alike a soils map depending on waht is growing where.
Link Posted: 2/18/2015 5:23:23 PM EDT
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you can definitly see the differance in tree quality when you get in the hills north of town, you can get on a ridge and  it is alike a soils map depending on waht is growing where.
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Aren't there two kinds of birch? One (regular white birch) that grows in the normal (lower) soil and one that grows in the permafrost (upper) soil? Going down a road in the hills above Fairbanks, the upper side of the road on one side of the freeze line was one kind of tree and the lower road (warmer soil) was a different kind.

I have a bad memory, so it could be a different kind of tree, and my Google-fu is weak this morning.


you can definitly see the differance in tree quality when you get in the hills north of town, you can get on a ridge and  it is alike a soils map depending on waht is growing where.

I found it. Uphill was black spruce and downhill was white spruce. The permafrost keeps the white spruce from germinating. http://www.uaf.edu/files/ces/publications-db/catalog/eeh/HCM-00754.pdf
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