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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
