Jenny- Not to answer for Ed, but there really are no other things for geologists to observe, other than terminal moraines, glacial kames, and highly dissected peneplains (like the rain in Spain).
Steve On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:57 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Lee, thanks. I'm one of those horrible northeasterners who see a map of > the US as: East Coast to the Appalachians, blank space, blank space, blank > space, Rocky Mountains, West Coast... > > That's really not good of me. Need to take an I-80 road trip a la John > McPhee- I keep talking about it. Although the weakest of his installments in > Annals of the Former World is 'Crossing the Craton'. > > Ed, is there anything for a geologist to do in the mid-west other than > look for natural gas and coal deposits? > > Beth, your farm looks incredible on the map link you sent. I expect > eternal chastisement for my topographical superficiality... > > Jenny > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lee Frelich <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, Nov 27, 2009 6:35 pm > Subject: Re: [ENTS] Winter Tree ID Glossary A-C > > 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 > > There are some others: > > http://forestry.about.com/library/tree/blglosid.htm > > http://www.2shoptrees.com/treeglossary.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/ (and click > on some of the ads) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: JennyNYC <[email protected]> > To: ENTSTrees <[email protected]> > 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 > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at 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] > > -- > 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] > > -- > 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] > > -- > 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] > > -- > 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]<entstrees%[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]
