I've spent several years living in the wide-open spaces of Wyoming, and as an avid hiker, I enjoy the natural wonders that flourish in our windswept landscapes. Among them are the myriad ...

Trees in the interior of a forest have less wind pushing them from the side and more pushing the top around. The snow hasn’t stuck around for very long lately, but the blustering winds remain strong.

But if flower stems are indeed tailored to the "correct" size, the onus is still on the authors to show that stem length and thickness is correlated with wind speeds in different habitats, she said.