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Aw shucks Bob, what'cha wanna do that fur?

Bob, cheer up- Bucky and Beatrice Beaver will be hard at work again shortly, and that list of species will shrink some.

Jack, In these new photos you've posted, it looks like there are in fact epicormic sprouts on the trunk, which would suggest pitch pine. And the bark in these photos does also look more like pitch pine to me than the first full-trunk photo did. If you count the needles in a bundle sheath, you'll kno...

Jack, That strikes me as being a red pine. Pitch pine cones tend to have little spiky projections on the tips of the scales. The bark in the photo of the trunk looks more like red than pitch to me. Pitch pine also could have tufts of needles sprouting from the trunk (epicormic growth); I don't see a...

We’re planning to make a short film about Connecticut’s Cathedral Pines. If anyone has photos of that forest taken prior to and/or immediately after the 1989 blowdown, I’d appreciate receiving a copy to be used in the film. Contributors will be listed in the film’s credits.

No denial from me. It's true... I love Connecticut so much that I live in a state that's as near to it as it can get! And I'd have absolutely no problem watching you guys work around the Pinchot monster. Oh, wait---- did you say April or May?? I'll double check, but I think I have to get a haircut t...

Hi Ryan, Thanks for the compliment, much appreciated. Those photos were taken with a LUMIX GH5S camera, and edited with Premiere Pro video editing software (which is what I use for video work, and will also work on a still photo (like it's one frame from a video clip). Re the black birches, I don't ...

The baobabs are apparently dying off in Africa ...

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Bob and Monica are lucky to have this great forest and habitat right in their backyard (literally). Sizable trees, windthrows, moss, as well as Bucky and Beatrice, have all combined to give this woodland a primitive look. I could easily spend a week in there trying to do it justice photographically....

Joshua,

We have a bit of mockernut in Western Mass. If you examine a leaf stalk, it should be slightly fuzzy (very very short hairs) if it's mockernut (hence the species name "tomentosa").