Popular Culture
Guitar luthier Mark Blanchard has named one of his models the tamarack.
Tamarack is the Territorial tree of Northwest Territories.
It is mentioned in the Ernest Hemingway short story 'The Battler' from In Our Time.
In the USA, the Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois is named from the Algonquin word for the species.
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