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Tree Talk: Black Locust

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Tree Talk: Yellow Birch

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Tree Talk: Butternut

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Tree Talk: Black Walnut

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Tree Talk: Bigtooth Aspen

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Tree Talk: Hackberry

Let's take a gander at hackberry, Celtis occidentalis! I've been saving this tree to record in winter because the bark is very distinctive. Hackberry is common and widespread across eastern North America. It is very hardy and tolerant of a wide range of soils and shade. Though not commercially valuable for timber, hackberry is an excellent wildlife and conservation tree.
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6:24

Tree Talk: Loblolly Pine

Просмотров 4,6 тыс.4 месяца назад

This Tree Talk is a little further south than usual; while down in the Land of the Pines we picked up the top dog, loblolly pine! Loblolly (Pinus taeda) is a large, fast-growing canopy tree that is very important for the timber industry and our rural economies. It is super common and widespread in much of the southeast, though it was historically found primarily in wet bottomlands. Want more go...

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Tree Talk: Black Locust

Просмотров 12 тыс.5 месяцев назад

This Tree Talk on black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), guest features thousands of screaming annual cicadas! Which are not at all related to insect locusts. And funny enough, black locust is not very closely related to the tree it was misidentified to be by English colonists at Jamestown over 400 years ago, the locust or carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua). Names aside, black locust has many distinc...

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Tree Talk: Yellow Birch

Просмотров 4,3 тыс.11 месяцев назад

This time on Tree Talk we're discussing Yellow Birch, "Betula alleghaniensis". Yellow birch is a beautiful tree; it has distinctive golden bark, and is often found "on stilts" due to establishing on nurse logs (decomposing fallen trees that provide good germination sites). It is a significant hardwood component of northern forests, with valuable wood and many wildlife benefits. No wonder the ye...

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Tree Talk: Butternut

Просмотров 6 тыс.Год назад

Another windy walnut Tree Talk! This time we're covering Juglans cinerea, known as butternut or white walnut (or the abbreviated "buttnut", at least among the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Forests team in Pennsylvania). This attractive, compact floodplain tree is prized for its tasty nuts and also produces nice wood, though its small sized and scattered nature make it more valuable for nuts t...

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Tree Talk: Black Walnut

Просмотров 35 тыс.Год назад

Today we're talkin' walnut! Black Walnut that is, Juglans nigra. Black walnut is an abundant and widespread canopy tree across the eastern United States, where it is an important member of our floodplain forests. Want more goods from the woods? Subscribe to this channel, and our monthly Forests for the Bay newsletter at www.allianceforthebay.org/get... ! Who are we, anyway? Forests for the Bay ...

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Tree Talk: Bigtooth Aspen

Просмотров 3,1 тыс.Год назад

Another aspen! The only other one in North America - bigtooth aspen, Populus grandidentata. Bigtooth aspen is very similar to quaking aspen, to the point that the two species hybridize readily. However, P. grandidentata has different life history strategies which result in it being found in different forest assemblages than quaking aspen across its range, our lovely forests of eastern North Ame...

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Tree Talk: Quaking Aspen

Просмотров 14 тыс.Год назад

We're trembling with excitement to discuss this tree - Populus tremuloides! Called quaking aspen, trembling aspen, or popple, this short tree with pioneer species ecology is full of surprises. It's the most widespread tree species in North America, with a range that stretches from high-elevation Mexico to Newfoundland and Labrador on the Atlantic Ocean, to above the Arctic Circle in Alaska. It ...

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Tree Talk: Red Maple

Просмотров 18 тыс.Год назад

If you live in the eastern US, you likely already know red maple (Acer rubrum)! Red maple is one of the most widespread and common trees in our eastern forests. It is found in just about every habitat, from swamps to cities to mountaintops, where it grows fast, reproduces like crazy, and treats us with a brilliant blaze of foliage each autumn. Want more goods from the woods? Subscribe to this c...

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Tree Talk: Black Cherry

Просмотров 18 тыс.Год назад

Three cheers for black cherry (Prunus serotina)! Black cherry is a beautiful tree that produces a beautiful wood. Its fruit is incredibly valuable for wildlife and is nutritious and (supposedly) tasty for humans. Black cherry is common on most soils in eastern North America and is easy to identify by the bark. Want more goods from the woods? Subscribe to this channel, and our monthly Forests fo...

Habichats Episode 2: Winter Wildlife Habitat on Agricultural Lands

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Habichats Episode 2: Winter Wildlife Habitat on Agricultural Lands

Просмотров 9062 года назад

For our second episode of Habichats (the show where we chat about habitat), Jim Kauffman with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay shows us different types of habitat that wildlife utilize over the winter on and adjacent to agricultural lands. Join us to learn about what wildlife stay within our Chesapeake Bay watershed over the winter and what improvements you could make on your property to sup...

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Tree Talk: Smooth Alder

Просмотров 3,9 тыс.2 года назад

Smooth alder (Alnus serrulata) is a wonderful thicket-forming species which falls into the catch-all category of "small tree to large shrub". Usually maxing out at a height of 15 feet, smooth alder is a fast-growing denizen of wetlands and riparian (streamside or lakeside) habitats, where it provides food for birds, bugs, and beavers, and good cover for wildlife in summer and winter. Want more ...

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Tree Talk: Eastern White Pine

Просмотров 17 тыс.2 года назад

Here's another one for lovers of big trees! Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) is an immense tree of immense historical, cultural, and economic importance. Once the dominant species of much of the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada, the enormous and economically valuable eastern white pine was a driving factor behind European colonial history. Old-growth white pine stands were cleared in...

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Tree Talk: Striped Maple

Просмотров 4,7 тыс.2 года назад

This time on Tree Talk, we discuss a short tree with a long list of common names. Striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum), also known as moosewood, snakebark maple, goosefoot maple, and whistlewood, is a small understory specialist of the Appalachians and northern woods. It is pretty innocuous in normal conditions but like other shade-tolerant trees, if striped maple is left in the stand during a ti...

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Tree Talk: Tulip-poplar

Просмотров 35 тыс.2 года назад

If you like trees that are easy to identify, you'll LOVE tulip-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)! This very distinct hardwood tree species is abundant and common in forests of the eastern US. Also called tuliptree and yellow-poplar, this species is actually in the Magnolia Family. Tulip-poplar is one of the largest hardwood trees in eastern forests and also boasts fast growth and high timber val...