Permafrost is ground where the temperature remains below 32 degrees Fahrenheit year-round.

coastal Alaska. Hybridizes with balsam poplar where ranges overlap. This is the largest broadleaf tree in Alaska. Apr 18, Drunken trees are becoming most prevalent in lowland arboreal forests across Alaska, Canada, and northern Eurasia, says Jorgenson.

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Aug 12, September 21, / Ned Rozell. Science Forum reader Trudy Parcher of Bellingham, Washington, wants to know more about an eye-catching Alaska roadside attraction, the drunken forest. In a drunken forest, trees--often pipe-cleaner black spruce--tilt in all directions like a group of rowdy revelers stumbling along the street. My next door neighbor who is the land lord of the property employed Great Alaska Tree Cutting to remove some leaning trees. We must have had 10+ trees along our property line creating shade and privacy in my yard as a natural barrier.

I guess Erik evaluated them as well as 4 - 5 trees /5(3).

Slumping land caused by melting permafrost also cracks pavement, breaks pipelines, and opens holes, causing expensive damage to houses and roads.

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4 Reviews.Directions.5/5(4). Tilted trees may also be caused by frost heaving, and subsequent palsa development, hummocks, earthflows, forested active rock glaciers, landslides, or earthquakes. In stands of spruce trees of equal age that germinated in the permafrost active layer after a fire, tilting begins when the trees are 50 to years old, suggesting that surface heaving from new permafrost aggradation can also create drunken.