Joe: Yes, there is some white birch even in old hemlock forests. Every so often a white birch captures a gap where several trees blow down--birch travel a long way on the wind and can access even the interior of large old growth tracts of forest.
In the Boundary Waters of northen MN, white birch usually becomes more abundant in older stands, especially after the age of 200. It grow there in large gaps from multiple tree deaths, and the roots are restricted to large pieces of coarse woody debris (basically pine trees that died 100 years prior), where they can get water during droughts on these sites which are very shallow soil on top of granite. Lee Joseph Zorzin wrote: > hmmm..... interesting, I wouldn't normally think of any white birch in > an old growth forest as it usually doesn't live that long- but I > suppose it's possible if an old growth stand gets opened up with storm > damage, some white birch could seed in- but I wonder how old it can > get? Maybe the idea that white birch can't live long compared to many > of our other species is just another of the */ many /* falsehoods in > the forestry world? > > That particular old white birch is the strangest one I've ever seen! > Joe > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Bob <mailto:[email protected]> > *To:* ENTS <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, October 25, 2009 12:22 PM > *Subject:* [ENTS] More Catskills > > ENTS > > The old growth yellow and white birch on Plateau are simply > extraordinary. Can't get enough. > > Bob > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
