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- Sun Mar 07, 2021 6:48 am
- Forum: Off-topic - Post About Anything Here
- Topic: How Honey is made, straight from the Beehive
- Replies: 5
- Views: 84
Re: How Honey is made, straight from the Beehive
At first glance, honey may not seem all that relevant to trees, but you have done an excellent job showing how it is. People are so divorced from Nature now that it can seem like all of our food comes from factories, grocery stores, etc. (essentially that it is an industrial product). Imagine if mor...
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 8:49 pm
- Forum: Phildelphia and the Countryside
- Topic: Stateline Woods Preserve, off of Old Kennett Pike
- Replies: 15
- Views: 490
Re: Stateline Woods Preserve, off of Old Kennett Pike
These are some very impressive trees, especially the beeches! This site doesn't look like old growth to me, but certainly older second growth possibly on rich soils. I don't know much about the historic land use in your area, so I am probably generalizing, but around here (east-central New York/west...
- Mon Sep 14, 2020 6:01 pm
- Forum: Forest Ecology and Processes
- Topic: Preventing Wildfire Deaths in Western United States
- Replies: 1
- Views: 624
Re: Preventing Wildfire Deaths in Western United States
Managing forests better and restoring wetlands are the first things to come to my mind. Just think how many wetlands in California have been drained or modified for agricultural purposes, and it is easy to see how droughts and wildfires can dramatically increase in intensity. It is my personal opini...
- Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:16 pm
- Forum: New York
- Topic: Buckhorn Island State Park
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1403
Re: Buckhorn Island State Park
Erik, This is a beautiful site, with some truly remarkable trees! Having never thoroughly explored the forests of western New York, I'm somewhat surprised by the presence of some of these species here, particularly the shumard oak, which I would have totally walked by, dismissing it merely as a big ...
- Fri Sep 04, 2020 7:55 am
- Forum: Tree Species, Families and Identification
- Topic: Old-growth pitch pine or red pine?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1373
Re: Old-growth pitch pine or red pine?
This is definitely Pinus rigida. Though an impressive specimen. All occurrences of P. resinosa in Connecticut are considered to be native, and extensive regeneration from plantations seems unlikely as the imported seedlings likely would be from a distinct population adapted to different climate, soi...
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:14 pm
- Forum: Connecticut
- Topic: Cathedral Pines, Cornwall
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1540
Re: Cathedral Pines, Cornwall
Jared, I'm glad to see this site finally given the attention it deserves from someone with the time and energy to do so. I've long wanted to measure some of the trees here, living only ten miles away, but I've never gotten to around to measuring any of them. You've confirmed my suspicions that there...
- Thu Feb 06, 2020 10:31 am
- Forum: Forest Management
- Topic: Restoration of Sugar Maple Stand
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2182
- Thu Feb 06, 2020 10:06 am
- Forum: Forest Management
- Topic: Restoration of Sugar Maple Stand
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2182
Restoration of Sugar Maple Stand
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...
- Wed Feb 05, 2020 9:26 am
- Forum: Massachusetts
- Topic: NE forests were old growth not cultured.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1126
Re: NE forests were old growth not cultured.
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...
- Wed Feb 05, 2020 9:09 am
- Forum: Connecticut
- Topic: Greenwich, CT Sites
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1440
Re: Greenwich, CT Sites
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...