Dense masses of weird branches sometimes grow in balsam fir trees behind our home in Nolalu and anywhere in the Boreal Forest. These are witch's brooms.
Before anyone gets a stake and fire ready, let me quickly say they have nothing to do with witchcraft. Rather they are places where a disease has afflicted the tree, causing it to grow spindly branches in all directions.
This cell-altering disease could have been caused by fungi, insects, viruses or even by accident such as when a falling tree bashes into another, leaving a wound where the disease can enter.
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