Emeril Lagasse

When I want to kick it up, I like to add hardwood chips or chunks to the grill; it adds bold smoky flavors. The most common woods are hickory and mesquite, but you can find alder, apple, cherry and, my personal favorite, pecan.

American Chef

Alders grow near water sources; think rivers, lakes or wetlands when you come across this word.

Natural Habitat

Alder trees support wildlife and help to reduce erosion, which makes their mention often positive in environmental contexts.

Ecosystem Role

Knowing that alder bark is used for dying helps identify cultural or historical contexts where alder might appear.

Cultural Uses

 We have now discovered that there is a multi-directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium -- so the mycelium is the mother that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks, cedars and Douglas firs.

6 ways mushrooms can...

 backpack nickel anko's gear lay at the edge of an alder patch but the researcher himself is nowhere to be found the search team enters the thick underbrush makes a grisly discovery the lifeless body of the tallied nickel anko

Killer Grizzly PIPE...

 must concede defeat to their arch enemies at once moreover as the vanquished leave the disputed territory and thankfully alder pups seem fine but there is one casualty