Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hemlock tree-thinning area is seen at Pack Demonstration Forest in Warrensburg. (Gwendolyn Craig/Adirondack Explorer) Mike ...

If you ever made friends with a tree, then you will understand why I wrote this. The Eastern hemlock became my friend when I was a child, playing on a forested slope behind the house that my dad built ...