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It drives me a bit nuts when people refer to aggressive natives as invasive. Some while at the same time suggesting people grow an actual invasive... I tell people the difference, and also inform people when they think all of a species is non native, like in TN we actually have several native honeysuckle species but people think all honeysuckles are invasive because they do not know about the native ones.

My goal is to do something meaningful like you while still affording my lifestyle

Are you saying that wild blueberry and sweet fern make nitrogen available to other plants? Or just for themselves? I know that Black locust is a legume and therefore a nitrogen fixer, but I've always wondered if it benefits other plants, or just itself?

You did good! That was powerful ❤

Living in NH for 37 years, and logging for 25 of those years; I never knew that.

We have both of those and dewberries, which are earlier creeping blackberries. I love black raspberries and dewberries more than wild blackberries personally, but we collect them all for treats. It is so worth it getting a few cups worth because my kids love them.

Here in Midcoast Maine, we now have(for the last 2 years or so) Beech leaf disease, which seems likely to kill off most of our beeches in the area. I haven't got a lot of information about it, but I've been to other parts of the state where it seems like it hasn't arrived. I'd like to hear more about this.

In the future will they count the birch tree rings back to DEI and LGBTQ LAFD upper management? 🌈🔥🌴🔥🏳️‍🌈

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Thank you! Great work

What is happening? Please explain. Super cool

This is so funny to me cause the meaning of my first name is from the beaver meadow. An old English name 😂. ❤ Thank you for advocating beavers. I’ve seen in a documentary how beavers restore the dry land and many species make a comeback. Plants and animals. 😊

I live near a beaver dam it’s so cool

I have a few pin cherries on my farm, which are huge in comparison.

I remember watching many birch die off in the 80s. I lived in western mass. I think they had a disease.

Well thats terrifying

My great great grandfather (1840-1935) said when his parents came to MO from the Carolinas, it was forested pretty much the whole way.

What type of oak? I’ve never seen that bark before on oak

Wow thats awesome We had a similar one at the end of one of our landings 40 years ago It was cut in a recent havest it was 24 inch dbh when it was cut

I love the quaking leaves on a cottonwood, too. That’s summer, right there

Russians came here. Basically, there was a lot of air traffic from Russia and Alaska during WW2.

Most seeds if in the right conditions can last even millennia before growing into trees. Israelis found a date palm seed that had been extinct for 1000 years. They planted it and it grew.

there are many wild and cultural variants of pin cherry, and in my experience they seem to follow the rockies and all the way down to the ANDIAN mountains of South America where we see a variant similar in North America as south America as the CAPOLI in the Quechua language. cherry seeds have a lot of there own protective chemicals such as cyanid that preserves the seed, as the hard shell also might need to get cracked by soil disturbance, animals or humans, it may be a good idea to use wild pin cherry trees as the root stock for local domestic cherry trees to be grafted or budded on to, as to take colder winters and hotter summers.

I love you. 🥰🌲

We ABSOLUTELY have to use fire for health of the man-made ecosystem. The lack of fire control is the reason the PNW is ALWAYS on fire!

Love this!

Very helpful information! The RTH is the only hummingbird in my area.

They are overpopulated! There were 10 million white-tailed deer in 1900. There were 30 million white-tailed deer in 2000. We humans are not destroying their habitat. For many reasons, they are a huge biodiversity threat. They are clearing out the plant diversity in the understory here in my state.

Do you burn?

What about the natural movement of wildlife? Why not use buckets on each tree? At least there's no plastic involved and deer and moose, etc., can move freely. Those buckets are old-fashioned, but it's not like you're making it an industrial level. Sorry, not sorry, to crap on your plastic tubing parade.

It's like those Californians who think it's okay to have Eucalyptus trees because "A tree is a tree." How do you like those Eucalyptus trees now? They go up in flames like a tinderbox. PLANT NATIVE!

Mother nature. She knows ❤

Encouraging! Is your book available for purchase?

Question: "Why would the seed wait to germinate?" Did, the heat of a fire stimulate it? What was the likely disturbance?

Most of them them trees are toth picks compare to what's been cut down thats why sost of them fall in hurricanes 😏

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There is a plant native to Florida called Lantana. Some genius hotel developer liked the plant and had it shipped to Hawaii, to be planted around his hotel. Of course, birds at the seeds and spread them around the island where they rapidly multiplied and grew, smothering out the native Hawaiian plants. The thing about Lantana is that you can rip it out of the ground with great effort, and any small root that is left in the ground will sprout a new plant, repeating the process of elbowing other plants out of its way.

I’ve picked wild ones of both. Blackberries will stab you. Now wild strawberries are tiny, but the flavor is outstanding. I started picking blueberries as a little kid, in a swamp with mosquitoes and spiders 😢.

Without any context, the sentence "a large disturbance visited the forest 50 years ago", sounds incredibly ominous and sinister.

You are a natural teacher 😊

all that dead-fall is fire kindling. this is the way to get really really hot and serious forest fires.

Could be beavers.

Grew with Birch trees in Michigan. Interesting…

Not paper different birch

It was a mystery “why is that the Memory Tree?” Now it know!!

THANL YOU

Matt Damon in my woods 😅

Input!

Thanks for your support of beavers 🦫 🙏 👍 🙌 😀 ❤️