Native Tree Society BBS

ENTS, I thought I'd share the story of my efforts to heal an abused stand of young sugar maples on my land in eastern New York. This site was cow pasture as recently as the late 1970s, since then it slowly turned into a thicket of multiflora rose and buckthorn, and now has been replaced primarily by...

This is a topic I have thought much about recently, and I generally don't fall for the idea that all of our New England forests were burned into oak forests; people often assume that all that mattered to the indigenous peoples of North America were abundant game and nut and berry producing plants, t...

I don't think we should write off the northern part of Connecticut entirely, I've been meaning to measure a few tuliptrees in Sharon which I believe are over 130' and likely still quite young with a lot more growing to do, which I find somewhat remarkable considering that they are growing on rocky s...

You wake up early one morning with the intent of climbing the highest mountain in your ecoregion, you set out from an early successional shrub thicket that was pasture-land several years earlier. Later, you ascend through an old growth montane oak forest and find yourself among vast alpine blueberry...

Rand, Do you know why callery pears so frequently escape from planted trees in Ohio? I always hear of how "invasive" they are, and almost always, the location described in is Ohio. Or is this even the case, and they really only invade highly disturbed areas? I have never seen an escapee in my part o...

ENTS, I failed to report on a visit I made to the park in September of 2018. I did not bring a tripod and the in-leaf canopy made hitting the true tops of many of these trees very difficult. So please consider these height numbers on the low side. The white pines and Norway spruce may be the stars o...

I decided to also put together an RHI10 for Columbia County, which neighbors Dutchess to the north. This county RHI is probably an even poorer representation of what trees currently grow in the county, let alone what once did. Columbia is under even more widespread and intensive agriculture than Dut...

Since Erik mentioned Dutchess County, I shall do my part and contribute what I believe is the most accurate current RHI10 for the county based on my own findings and Elijah's reports from along the Hudson River. It should be kept in mind that this is only representing two sites, the Vanderbilt Estat...

I am confused here, have I missed something in my absence from the BBS? What exactly is this FR site? I do hope someone can explain this for my sake, and for any others who have not heard of this.

Thanks,
Joshua Harkness