Native Tree Society BBS

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").

Asian jumping worms are here in Western Mass too. I learned that while making a short film on invasive worms.... https://youtu.be/5xvkIDs3zQk

JHarkness wrote: Is there hope for the survival of any species on our precious earth, including ourselves, while those in "authority" call the continued explotiation of our natural resources and degredatation of native ecosystems "progress"?

To answer that question: for our species... I'm doubtful, sadly.

The red oak group of species also hybridizes readily, making absolute identification of species a confusing and frustrating endeavor.

Erik, Yes, they can stitch together a number of scans that give them a great 3D image. They can then move around thru the image as if they were walking thru the scanned area. The sample images I saw on Peter's laptop were black and white, and rather ghostly looking, but you can see bark detail, etc....

Here are three photos of the Leica BLK360 lidar instrument operating during a scan. In the slot that's visible in the head of the unit (photo 1), there's a small mirror that rotates at high speed, scattering millions of laser pulses outward. In photo 2, the mirror in the slot is a blur, since it's r...