John, Great job providing a comprehensive overview of tree info.
Gary On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:54 PM, John Eichholz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > I am glad you got out. It was a beautiful day. > > For the information, I would be sure to include the food and > traditional medicinal uses of the trees as is appropriate. Sugar > Maple is obvious, but acorns, especially white oak are edible, as are > hickory nuts, beech nuts, and of course chestnuts, bark from yellow > and black birch are distilled to give wintergreen oil, bark from paper > birch can be used almost as construction material (as in "birch bark > canoe") and to make all kinds of useful containers, and as parchment, > witch hazel makes a skin tonic (which I have never used), pine needle > tea is a winter source of vitamin C and white pine inner bark has been > used for flour, sumac berries can be made into tea, and basswood, > aspen, cottonwood and cedar (is there any cedar?) are favored as > spindles to make fire for cooking. White ash is used for baskets, > another food-related use. Black cherry bark is a cough suppressant. > Anyway, that is a start. Sounds like an interesting project. > > John > > On Nov 9, 8:44 pm, [email protected] wrote: >> ENTS, >> >> Monica and I took advantage of the gorgeous weather this afternoon >> and took our birch bark canoe out on little Fitzgerald Lake. The >> lake is about a third of a mile from our front door. It is part of >> a nearly 700-acre conservation area. I have sent quite a few images >> of it in the past. I'll not comment on the individual images. They >> pretty well speak for themselves. >> >> I am involved with the Broad Brook Coalition, which helps the City >> of Northampton manage the Fitzgerald Lake Conservation Area. My >> role is to help with the interpretive services. We are going to >> identify the tree species visible from along the trail network and >> provide information on each species in a brochure. In addition to >> identification information, my idea is to provide 10 interesting >> facts about each species. Any suggestions/recommendations on what >> might be of greatest interest for any of the following species >> would be greatly appreciated. >> >> N. red oak Black oak Chestnut oak White oak Scarlet oak >> >> Sugar maple Red maple Striped Maple >> >> Yellow birch White birch Black birch >> >> Red elm A. basswood A. hornbeam Hop hornbeam >> >> Eastern cottonwood Bigtooth aspen Quaking aspen >> >> Black cherry Witch hazel Flowering dogwood >> >> Black locust A. chestnut A. beech >> >> White ash Green ash Catalpa Staghorn sumac >> >> Pignut hickory Shagbark hickory >> >> White pine Eastern hemlock >> >> There are a few other species in the area, but these are the ones I >> can think of off the top of my head. I haven't yet identified Pin >> oak, although I'm fairly certain it grows in the area. Neither have >> I identified tulip poplar, although it can be found farther up >> Broad Brook. I believe Swamp white oak grows somewhere in the >> conservation area. >> >> Our assumption is that people will be more drawn to the trees if we >> give them really interesting tidbits about each species. >> >> Bob >> >> EntryIntoThePond.jpg >> 165KViewDownload >> >> HiddenCorner.jpg >> 369KViewDownload >> >> EveningReflctions1.jpg >> 179KViewDownload >> >> EveningReflections2.jpg >> 220KViewDownload >> >> EveningLight.jpg >> 382KViewDownload > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
