This clump of paper birch trunks was backlit by a blaze of reds and yellows.

She noticed the trees: maple, birch, ash.

Birch and hazel trees can produce 5.5 and 4 million grains per catkin, respectively.

The preferred foods of snowshoe hares are willow and birch twigs.

And this efficiency of the birch bark canoe also made an impression on newcomers to the area.

French traders in the 17th century modeled their...well they adopted the design of the Iroquois birch bark canoes, and they found they could travel great distances more than 1500 kilometers a month.

Now besides the bark, Native Americans also used the wood of the birch tree.

And the Native American people were all adept at running very fast over the snow in these birch branch snowshoes, which if you ever tried walking in snowshoes you know it wasn't easy.

Well, birch bark is pliable and very easy to bend.

So if they cooked in bowls made of birch bark, wouldn't that make the food taste funny?

Oh, that's one of the great things about birch bark.

Species of birch, for example, may occur at the timberline in parts of the Himalayas.

One great thing about these birch bark canoes was, uh, they could carry a large amount of cargo.

The taste of the birch tree doesn't get transferred to the food.