Tree spotters may be pleased to spot the American larch, a deciduous conifer that isn't found much farther south.

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When my daughter Elizabeth asked me what the difference was between a deciduous and conifer tree, because she was having trouble memorizing the answer from the science book, I took her outside to see it for herself.

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These raised the sea level, producing Japan's meandering modern coastline with its prolific crops of shellfish and edible seaweed, and also permitted the spread of deciduous forests, which provide a cornucopia of nuts, berries and shoots that do not run away.

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Together we left for parts unknown (to both of us, as it turned out), taking a minimally marked, extremely difficult hike that brought us up through deciduous to coniferous forest and back again in about six hours.

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