The Magic Maples of New England
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- The maple trees of New England and the entire northeast are famous for their fluorescent autumn colors. Can you identify each of these species? Would you recognize them in their old-growth forms? Join us for a look at these magic maples. Old-growth forest expert Bob Leverett and Harvard Forest Senior Ecologist Neil Pederson are featured.
These maple species are included:
Red maple (Acer rubrum)
Silver maple (Acer saccharinum)
Boxelder or Ash-leaved maple (Acer negundo)
Sugar maple or Rock maple (Acer saccharum)
Norway maple (Acer platanoides)
Striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
Mountain maple (Acer spicatum)
Black maple (Acer nigrum)
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im studying about these trees in school and its so boring to just listen to the teachers and ppts, your video is helping so much to understand about them!!! thanks
That’s good to know.. thanks for posting. I’d suggest you head into a forest and take some detailed, closeup looks at the trees (and other things). You’ll likely start noticing little things that will pique your curiosity, and it can be a really interesting and rewarding way to spend some time. I’ve been doing that for years and never tire of it.
Best thing I’ve seen in ages. Interesting information and beautifully presented.
I agree! Especially since I live in NE and get the lowdown to be able to see the giants! 🌲 🌳🤩
I love the forests of north eastern US and south eastern Canada. I really miss that, I live out west and we don't have many deciduous trees here. The forests back east have a distinct smell too which we don't have here
We only see maple trees in towns and cities here. No sugar maple but they planted a lot of Red Maple, Norway maple and Silver maple.
I live in central México and I love this tree I have 2 planted on my backyard (a red and a silver maple), even though I'm quite in the south the maples are growing very well.
The fact that you even mention Black Maple was great, but if you would of went into detail about it, like you did with the other maples, would of been awesome. Edit: I have one right behind my house and it carries a lot of good memories from when I climbed it as a kid. I still climb it every now and then to be honest...
Black Maple is considered a hard maple and very closely related to Sugar Maple, some even consider it a sub-species. Its sap also contains high sugar content although slightly lower than Sugar Maple but higher than soft maples.
This was so very informative without being the least bit boring. Thank you so much!
Thanks Jessica. We're working on another about the oak trees of New England. Hope you'll find that one enjoyable too.
Blown away by the quality of video. Awesome stuff!
Thanks, Nate!
You need intense cold during the winter for Maples to spring back in Spring.
When the winters are mild. the trees do not get a good sleep.
Plus the lack of other species affects the health of trees.
Great presentations, excellent filming. The bark, leaf, and reproductive differential IDs are ⭐️ It’s also a master class in ‘just enough pedantry’ from which a lot of us could learn a lesson. Thanks to everyone involved with creating this🧡🍁
Came here to learn about maples - was not dissapointed! Thanks for another great video.
Thanks Nate, I appreciate knowing it’s helpful. You might be interested in one about oaks that will be finished before too long.
@@NewEnglandForests I will absolutely check that out, sounds great. We are big on planting oaks here in Illinois.
Very nice video and educational. I never knew trees were male, female or both and could change. There's nothing more invigorating than the Fall colors of the deciduous trees.
Y'all make the best videos. Thanks so much for the work you do!
Hi Sarah... thank you! Glad you're watching.
-Ray
Thank you for this very informative video and as always The Beauty of The Trees❤
What I love about this video is that it showed how stands of specific maple species look like. It's difficult to find pictures of a Silver Maple dominant forest for instance.
Come to Green Brook, NJ and you’ll see silver maple stands on the flood plain between Rock and Jefferson Avenues
What a nice thanksgiving treat! Thank you so much!
One of the most informative and inspiring New England forest video!!
Fabulous info and video...thanks for creating and sharing!
Great video of two of my favorite trees., thanks. The sugar Maple and a forest grown red Maple on virgin ( never cleared ) forest soil. Most of my sugar Maples in my 50 acre woodlot west of Syracuse are well and healthy especially on good well drained soil with pH around 6 . But i have observed die back on perhaps 10% . Whether this is normal or not i have observed 2 contributing factors : 1. Invasive , shade tolerant species ( esp striped maple, buckthorn) moving in within the root zone of the mature tree. 2. Frost cracks from the freeze thaw winters we've been having in the last 20 years. The Gypsy moth is going to very bad this year also. We will see what that does.
Ack! I left a comment yesterday and it is gone. Many of yhese vids are filmed almost literally in my backyard and I LOVE them. At the end of the day I SO look forward to watching and re-watching them. If you guys ever need a base camp, I am a stones throw from Pisgah. I would be more than happy to assist. Thanks and keep up the exceptional work.
Hi John, thank you. Yes, you did post a comment yesterday, and as I went to publish it I accidentally hit the "delete" button instead (not the first time that's happened, because the buttons are near each other). Unfortunately, there is no way provided to undo that delete, and I had no way to contact you, so I could only hope you'd re-post. Sorry for the fumble, and I'm glad you tried again.
If you enjoyed the first two Beaver Pond Wildlife films, you'll be happy to know the third in the sequence (summer) is in the works right now, hopefully to be published before too much longer.
-Ray
P.S. - The Pisgah (New Hampshire) region is beautiful country. Lucky you!
You people are truly blessed by such natural beauty
I'm more of a White Pine man myself but this outstanding overview of the Maple family has challenged my preconceptions ;-)
Gotta love the white pine. Still haven't tried pine syrup on my pancakes tho.... :)
Large, old growth white pines (and hemlocks!) are very respectable and impressive trees, no question. But the same is true for old growth sugar maples and red maples. These centuries-old trees are just beautiful; they’re rugged looking specimens that convey a real sense of antiquity and survival.
@@NewEnglandForests Your channel is the best thing I have discovered on TH-cam all year. Your videos are simply magnificent and must involve a vast amount of work. As a Canadian, I hope these videos are being sent to schools and universities across the USA and beyond. They are an excellent introduction to the formal or informal study of biology/ecology. These videos also provide a vivid historical image of what the eastern half of our continent looked like prior to European colonization. I live in Ontario with 14.6 million other people and I would be surprised if 2% of the population have ever seen our Provincial Tree ( White Pine) or a Maple in a fully mature state. As a practical matter, not knowing what your society has lost makes it much more difficult to promote interest in the preservation of the few remaining old growth forests or the full restoration of more marginal woodlands. I would be remiss if I failed to mention a place called Gillies Grove in Arnprior, Ontario which is very near Ottawa. When the borders open again I encourage people to come and see the tallest trees in our vast province.
Very interesting video, thanks! I've been studying nordic sugar maple population at and above their northern limit range within the province of Québec. interesting fact, they're all living on top of hills, never in the valleys. We're trying to caracterize those stands on 28 sites and evaluate their expansion potential at an altitude and latitude scale. We found a small nordic sugar maples stand at the Gouin reservoir which is quite far in the boreal forest. I've cored about 100 sugar maples and 100 red maples and on all those trees 1981 was also a marker year! Near Temiscamingue Lake in Abitibi, we found sugar maples that were around 300 years old. I think that with climat change, the whole distribution area is shifting at a macro level and at a micro level too. Stations that were good for Sugar maple wont be as much in the futur and they will move toward stations that are becoming more suitable for them.
It's pretty interesting that you found 1981 to be a marker year as well... was that due to gypsy moths?
@@NewEnglandForests The moths were probably an aggravating factor but its more related to early and late thaw-freeze events and mostly due to an accumulating stress factors as is suggested by my colleagues in their article:
Moreau, G., Achim, A., & Pothier, D. (2020). An accumulation of climatic stress events has led to years of reduced growth for sugar maple in southern Quebec, Canada. Ecosphere, 11(7), e03183.
The question remain for populations at and above the northern limits as the dynamics might be different. Also, the white year rings are interesting. I should look at my core samples again because i remember seeing them.
I knew maple was present in Temiscamingue but only Red maple and Mountain maple, I didn't know that Sugar Maple went that far north.
You see a major change between Rouin and Temiscamingue, there are more deciduous forests and then when you
arrive close to North Bay Ontario you see a lot of maple and some Oak.
This is very interesting.
It's almost like Temiscamingue has a micro-climate because when you drive from North Bay to Temiscamingue, the hardwood and maple forests end not far north of North Bay and then it quickly changes into Taiga, mainly spruce, fir, aspen and birth but when you get close to Temiscamingue you start seeing more deciduous trees and farmland.
Keep up the good work my fellow tree nerd. I'm trying to urbanize acer pennsylvanicum by using it as landscaping trees to get rid of the idiots that plant silver or red maple just to butcher them. If you want a small tree plant one that will remain small lol but what would I know trees are my autistic obsession!!!!!
Nothing beats New England in the fall.
Excellent. Many thanks from Chicago.
What an awesome video. I love maple trees, they're my favorite along with Oak. My favorite maple trees are actually soft maples, Red and Silver.
Great video. I love my New England trees.
Amazing video... would love to see more.
Great content and very informative. I think where I am in Connecticut, red maple has to be one of the most common trees in both plantings (autumn blaze and other cultivars) and as forest trees (previously open areas reverted back to forest) The only place outside cities I’ve found silver maples were along the sandy banks of the Connecticut river. There’s also a naturally occurring hybrid between red and silver called Freeman’s maple, which I just found out about. I’ve only come across one in the wild and was confused by the leaves, at which point I dug deeper.
Wonderful camera work.
Another excellent video, thanks for making!
Red Maple although called "soft maple" it's wood is not soft, it is indeed a hardwood tree and is in fact quite harder than Silver Maple and Boxelder maple. It's actually very good wood. It's considered good firewood as well but not as well sought after as sugar maple.
Silver maples have significantly softer wood than Red Maples are quite brittle. Sometimes large Silver maples growing in cities can cause disasters.
Boxelders is the softest maple.
Silver and Red Maples hybrids are considered a desirable tree, known as Freeman maple. It has the less brittle quality of red maple as well as a less shallow root system but the faster growing than Red Maple.
I just found this channel and LOVE your content. Thanks! I've learned some facts that I didn't even learn in my forestry classes.
It would be interesting to know what some of those facts are...
I really enjoyed this - very well done! Keep it up!
I have some really shaggy and very large red maples/swamp maples on my land. The occasional bobcat, pheasant and black bear too. The bear being my favorite. My close very close second are my trees. The giant bearded swamp maples looking gnarled at the roots and being the quite imposing with size and scope and a certain specter of their dominance among many others. It’s such strong dense wood. I have pignut hickories too that I’m sentimental for as well. I like to think they welcomed me and the family we’ve made here amongst them.
Yup.. “juggernaut” elder red maples though. I’ll post photos later if I manage to remember.
Oh. It’s also Chopmist Hill in Scituate, RI. The western hill “RI highlands”. Proportionate to the end. Anyways. Yup. Mine is partial swamp and I do believe the land surrounding us is mainly olde (yup old with an elizabeathean E) nice! Olde growethe forest. Sorry. Old Growth Forest. No stone walls or ruins of them for at least several hundred yards extended out in a radius. That’s something for colonial southern New England. I don’t think that Chopmist Hill was really established as settled farmlands ever. It was mostly turnpike and trolly line town so, a
Good portion of what once was remains here and to the west in the adjacent Quinnebaug Valley in CT. In any event… I feel quite blessed and quite lucky to have such marvelous in every sense of that word, marvelous maples. Remind me if I forget photos.
I live on the south shore Boston area, it's beautiful area, the fall is so cool, literally, the summers heat and humidity are gone and autumn comes in cool and dry. Great show, I appreciate trees more now, probably because some are older than me.
25:20 What a beautiful way to end the video.
Excellent video, I learned a lot.
I was looking for what factors increase the red tint of the maples while I found your movie. The subject of your study is amazing. Thank you!
Glad to hear it, I hope you got your answer. Thanks for watching.
-Ray
Great Video!
Good work. Thanks from Philadelphia
I like that people actually take long road trips to look at fall foliage in New England "Leaf Peepers." But I think growing up with it every fall makes that seem weird. Just like how in Alaska, its no big deal to see a bald eagle. So for an Alaskan to see a tourist lose their mind over seeing one would seem weird.
Fantastic!
Una dellle più grandi meraviglie naturali. ..sembra un paesaggio delle fiabe...i colori sono incredibili e anche la foresta assume un' aspetto surreale..io ho ricreato un bosco in nord italia con acero rubrum e saccharum..gli alberi hanno 10 anni e sono ancora giovani, ma i colori sono molti simili a questi...
I have stripped maple overhanging my back yard. Some trunks are over 12” in diameter with heights probably around 50’.
I just walked my property and found a few really old maples . One was 171" = 14.72 feet and the other was 149" = 12.41 feet around ." I would like to know if there one of biggest around? I've never saw any this large . It would be nice if anyone would know the age of them
how do you do those seasonal color transitions ive seen in some of your videos?
In one of two ways...either you stay in that one spot for months, doing a time lapse sequence; or, it’s electronic time warp magic. (You wouldn’t expect me to give away all my secrets, would you??)
I was told that the sugar maple is moving north gradually. Its leaving PA, NY and New England because of our milder winters now adays. It likes the cold I was told.
R B... not saying this is true, and not saying it’s false. But we did a little test of this last year. We put a camera in the woods for six months. Not a single sugar maple moved north. 😬
@@NewEnglandForests Lol, I've been watching mine like a hawk and yea, nothing
They don't go that far north. Red Maple actually go further north.
Also, it's debatable that the climate has gotten warmer in the east as we've had some of the coolest years on record between 2018-2020.
False. There is a huge sugar maple growing in sacramento, California. There are sugar maples in tennesse and georgia.
Unrelated to new england, but silver maples are Really common along rivers in northern california. Its becoming concerning because they shade out other tree species
What about invasive earth worms that reduce the duff layer as a cause in the sugar maple decline? I read that the upstate NY forests have lost most of the top organic layer due to these worms decomposing it so quickly.
Peter... if you haven't watched it already, you might want to watch "My Forest Has Worms" on this channel, at th-cam.com/video/5xvkIDs3zQk/w-d-xo.html.
@@NewEnglandForests I've watched it. Thanks! Great videos!
Sassafras develop target cancers from perennial target cancer also.
Tree rings are NOT annual. They represent seasonal growth and you can get 3-5 rings in a single season.
In temperate regions (as here in New England), most tree rings represent one year's growing season, so they can be used to determine a tree's age. But yes, you can get more than one ring in some years (the additional ones are known as "false" rings), as well as a year with no ring (a "missing" ring). Dendrochronologists accumulate ring counts from many trees in a given area, and can "cross-date" trees in that area to detect and account for false and missing rings, since some of those trees will not have the false or missing rings. Matching the pattern of a series of narrow and wide rings among trees in the area helps them do this.
I've searched and searched for mountain maple and have yet to find acer spictum. So my favorite native maple is the striped or snake bark maple. There is a cultivar of acer pennsylvanicum called if spelled right erthrcladum lol let's day it begins with the letter E that has bright glowing red bark unlike the typical green. I hope to run across one of those one day lol. That said planting the regular snake bark maple in full sun triggers some reddish bark and turns the buds red. I love these little trees bout as much as japanese maples.
Matt... that's Acer pensylvanicum Erythrocladum (I had to look it up, I'm not familiar with it)... it's beautiful isn't it?
@@NewEnglandForests yes its stunningly beautiful. I love anything that has winter interest considering winter more or less is half the year. Not to mention if you have a garden that's beautiful in winter its beautiful all year. Yes I'm an autistic plant nerd lol I can't help it. I live in far southwestern virginia in tazewell county do mountain maples not live here? Well somewhere close anyway? I've searched for this illusive tree for some time with no success. Considering I'm up high in the mountains would they more than likely be in what's called a spruce island or aka a boreal forest at the tops of the highest mountains? Theres a spruce island not to far from me near laurel bed lake and if that's where they grow that's my excuse to get off my lazy butt and go snatch one! The umbrella magnolia caught my attention where I was young and plants mostly trees have been my obsession ever since. Thanks for any info you have
I believe mountain maple (Acer spicatum) can be found at high elevations in the Appalachians of Virginia.
Why are you so mean to the Boxelder? What did it do to you?😢
(🤫 Shhhhhh…. trying to shame it into straightening up and becoming a proud tree.)
In terms of gender the red maple was ahed of its time I guess😀
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Which month was this ?
October
@@NewEnglandForests is mid October too late to go to Berkshire?
It’s never too late to go to the Berkshires- it’s beautiful any time of year. But I’m sure you’re asking about foliage season, and mid-October would be perfect. Enjoy!
Here's to Bob Levereritt's monologues: 👇
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All of the striped maples are ruined by disease in my area.
Land of maple syrup and forests🌲🍁🏔🐿❄💖
This justifies Robert frost.