You don’t really notice much different about a Tamarack Tree in the summer months, as it has bluish green needles like other evergreens, pine and spruce, but it is a deciduous tree. It’s needles turn a golden yellow in late fall and drop off. Stacey Flood spotted a number of them along the Cliff Drive near Phoenix and snapped a few photos, getting up close for a look, also, so you can see the needles in their golden finery. The Tamarack is also called Eastern Larch and it’s Latin name is larix laricina. It’s one of the last trees to turn color in the fall.

Tamarack and larch lumber is used for local construction, in the region where the trees are grown. The wood is used for telephone poles, furniture, flooring and millwork. The Algonquian’s used them for making snowshoes, also.

Our video today is from Nature Niche and gives us more information about the Tamarack tree. Monday’s with Martha is at the Beaver Dam property of the Michigan Nature Association between Cedarville and Hessel, MI to talk about these interesting trees.

Very pretty trees. I like yellow just fine.
It's much prettier than bare.

Around the head of the bay between Baraga and
L'Anse, it's filled with these trees, and it is so
beautiful.....

That color would make a nice hair highlight during autumn. Call it;

“The UP Gold Streak”