Will,
Ed's and Steve's joking aside, I'm with you. The Great Plains are fascinating. While in the Air Force, I lived just a few miles from the Black Hills. Loved it. I miss the Black Hills to this day. They are rather rugged, but highly accessible. When I got off the plane at the Rapid City Airport, the first thing I had to become accustomed to was the constancy of the winds. The prairie gales are unrelenting. In time I made the adjustment and then came to enjoy having my face blasted. In the summer, the wind kept pesky mosquitoes,biting flies, and gnats at bay. In the winter? Well, I never got used to those winds. You have to be part Eskimo like Lee to actually enjoy winter winds. The sky plays a much larger role in one's life on the prairies. I loved the expansiveness and prevalence of the skyscapes and their clarity. You can visually track storms for miles away. The skyscapes are miserly here in New England as throughout most of the East. There is something freeing to the spirit about open country. The late John Madson waxed eloquent about the prairie and how the open spaces molded the open plains character. He didn't think too much of the suspicious nature of the woods hilly billy. I'll get out his book and provide some quotes. His writing and descriptions are simply 'delicious' - and funny. Hey, when are you going to organize a neat ENTS event in south Georgia? Were you to think seriously about such an endeavor, what would be some candidate sites? I'm a Tennessee-Georgia-Kentucky ridge runner by birth. Although, I've traveled through south Georgia on quite a few occasions, I really know very little about it other than what I read. Maybe you and Larry could team up together. It would give Larry an opportunity to rack up some more live oaks. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Fell" <[email protected]> To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 11:00:52 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: Winter Tree ID Glossary A-C I personally have found the great plains a very ineresting place. The Sandhills and Pine Ridge country of Nebraska, also the Scott's Bluff formations. Further south the Anadarkas of Oklahoma, the canyons of the Texas panhandle and the limestone hill country west of Austin. Have not traveled north of the Black Hills in the Dakotas, but I have found the whole area from the Mississippi to the Front Range fascinating both from geography and ecology. On Nov 27, 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 ofMinnesota, > Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri. Others, such as chestnut, graybirch, black > birch and others that had range limits further east than theprairie-forest > border. > > Lee > > At 07:28 PM 11/26/2009, you wrote: > > Jenny, > > Reference your question, "where is a distinct western cut-off fornortheastern > tree species?" Tree distribution maps exist showing thenatural range of each > species. You probably know this already. However, agood source for range maps > is Silvics of North America. Google Silvics ofNorth America, choose a > species, page down, and view the range map. Eachspecies has its range. You > can decide what you want to say for a speciesafter 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/CanadaEastern > 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 > inleaf), canopy, CBH, etc? > > I didn't go to another glossary to find these, but used some of theseterms in > my description texts. I see this could potentially be anightmare. But I think > it's fun to determine the scope of what a wintertree id glossary would > include from an ENTS perspective. > > FYI the trees I am writing about native to northeastern America - fromBronx > NYC to Maine, and west to, geez, where? where is a distinctwestern 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 theads) > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: JennyNYC > > To: 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 asmall > > winter id brochure and brought back a 50+ page draft for abook" > > project! > > I want to add a glossary. So, what winter tree id vocabulary doyou > > recommend starting with A - C? > > And should words like "bark" be in the glossary? buds? Iguess yes? > > I wrote a NYBG winter tree id tour and I can add that with a mapto > > the book too. Man, I need a deadline. 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