| 41. | The first tree, a cut balsam fir, was placed on the Ellipse by the District of Columbia Public Schools.
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| 42. | Biologists reported that balsam fir, the main winter food for moose, was in desperate shape and predicted a catastrophe.
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| 43. | The quarantine doesn't apply to spruce and balsam fir, which are the trees most favored by Christmas tree growers.
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| 44. | And by studying tree rings, the researchers found that in those same years, growth of balsam fir saplings increased.
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| 45. | It is often found in pure stands or forests mixed with eastern white pine, balsam fir, or black spruce.
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| 46. | Because balsam fir does not give sufficient moisture, moose have recently been spotted eating snow, a very rare occurrence.
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| 47. | Most of the animals in the spruce-fir forest have ranges that extend into the balsam fir forest higher up.
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| 48. | The regeneration included a surprisingly large number of balsam fir seedlings from the 5 % stand component of that species.
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| 49. | The data combined from all plots surprisingly indicated that white spruce canopies contained more spruce budworm than balsam fir canopies.
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| 50. | "I don't think there are any serious growers who are planting balsam fir they know nothing about, " he said.
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