One of the most important, yet challenging, skills to nail down as a wilderness survivalist is tree identification. Beyond ...

Willow trees fall under the Salix genus and include over 400 species, with two of the most well-known medicinal species being the white willow (Salix alba) and the black willow (Salix nigra).

The willow trees are some of the few nonnative plants ... “So willows, dogwoods and other wetland adaptive species are really good at kind of taking that pressure of being basically chomped ...

Locally, we have 12 shrub and tree species, and several more when we include the tiny, alpine species growing on Murphy Dome. Overall in Alaska, there are 36 species of willow. As a vital part of ...