Jenny: Many of the northeastern tree species extend to the prairies of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri. Others, such as chestnut, gray birch, black birch and others that had range limits further east than the prairie-forest border.
Lee At 07:28 PM 11/26/2009, you wrote: >Jenny, > >Reference your question, "where is a distinct western cut-off for >northeastern tree species?" Tree distribution maps exist showing the >natural range of each species. You probably know this already. However, a >good source for range maps is Silvics of North America. Google Silvics of >North America, choose a species, page down, and view the range map. Each >species has its range. You can decide what you want to say for a species >after viewing its map. Hope this helps. > >Bob > >----- Original Message ----- >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 6:47:12 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >Subject: Re: [ENTS] Winter Tree ID Glossary A-C > >Thanks Ed, > >Should I include terms like: Beech Bark Disease, buttressed, bottomlands, >bole, coppice, core (as in 'to core'), colony, cluster, cling (as in >leaf), canopy, CBH, etc? > >I didn't go to another glossary to find these, but used some of these >terms in my description texts. I see this could potentially be a >nightmare. But I think it's fun to determine the scope of what a winter >tree id glossary would include from an ENTS perspective. > >FYI the trees I am writing about native to northeastern America - from >Bronx NYC to Maine, and west to, geez, where? where is a distinct western >cut-off for northeastern tree species? > >Jenny > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Edward Frank <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thu, Nov 26, 2009 4:59 pm >Subject: Re: [ENTS] Winter Tree ID Glossary A-C > >Jennifer, > >The Arbor Day Foundation has a tree term glossary with a few words: ><http://www.arborday.org/trees/treeguide/glossary.cfm>http://www.arborday.org/trees/treeguide/glossary.cfm > >There are some others: > ><http://forestry.about.com/library/tree/blglosid.htm>http://forestry.about.com/library/tree/blglosid.htm > >http://www.2shoptrees.com/treeglossary.htm > ><http://www.botany.com/index.16.htm>http://www.botany.com/index.16.htm > > >Acorn, Angiosperm > >Bark, Balding, Berry, Bud, Bud Scar, Branch > >Catkin, Clone, Cone, Conifer, Crown, Crown Spread > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Ed Frank > > >Check out my new >Blog: ><http://nature-web-network.blogspot.com/>http://nature-web-network.blogspot.com/ > >(and click on some of the ads) >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:[email protected]>JennyNYC >To: <mailto:[email protected]>ENTSTrees >Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 4:34 PM >Subject: [ENTS] Winter Tree ID Glossary A-C > >ENTS, > >Happy Thanksgiving! > >Back to working on "the NYBG volunteer who was asked to do a small >winter id brochure and brought back a 50+ page draft for a book" >project! > >I want to add a glossary. So, what winter tree id vocabulary do you >recommend starting with A - C? > >And should words like "bark" be in the glossary? buds? I guess yes? > >I wrote a NYBG winter tree id tour and I can add that with a map to >the book too. Man, I need a deadline. I'm arbitrarily picking >1/10/10. > >thanks Jenny > >-- >Eastern Native Tree Society ><http://www.nativetreesociety.org/>http://www.nativetreesociety.org >Send email to <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >Visit this group at ><http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en>http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en >To unsubscribe send email to ><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] > >-- >Eastern Native Tree Society ><http://www.nativetreesociety.org/>http://www.nativetreesociety.org >Send email to <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >Visit this group at ><http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en>http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en >To unsubscribe send email to ><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] > > > >-- >Eastern Native Tree Society ><http://www.nativetreesociety.org>http://www.nativetreesociety.org >Send email to [email protected] >Visit this group at ><http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en>http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en >To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > >-- >Eastern Native Tree Society ><http://www.nativetreesociety.org>http://www.nativetreesociety.org >Send email to [email protected] >Visit this group at ><http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en>http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en >To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -- 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]
