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We were hiking in Curt Gowdy State Park a few weeks ago when we met two leafless trees standing by a creek. “Are you an alder or a birch?” I asked the first (above). There was no reply. I posed the same question of the second (below), with the same result. Both stood silently except for an occasional whisper of branchlets in the wind. It was a valid question. Alders and birches are both in the birch family (Betulaceae). You might say they’re cousins -- different genera, with alders in the…

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