Tree Identification - Black Oak, Red Cedar, Hackberry

[Pete Collin]

With each video, I'm whittling away at New York's tree species.  Our forests are pretty diverse!

 

[Gator]

I wish they were more so!! So many of the woodlots on the L. Ontario shoreline and Niagara frontier are comprised primarily of ash, including much of one of mine, and when the canopy opens, the invasive species take over. It used to be that a chainsaw was a woodlands manager's best friend. Now, it's just an invitation for bush honeysuckle, multiflora rose, buckthorn...

 

Okay, I'll stop with the doom and gloom. It's tough to watch though. We've planted over 3000 stems on our 43 acre piece, massive diversity, all in tubes or cages - but I'm fairly sure that the deer and mice have taken out >80% of what we put in. 3' tubes for native shrubs were a joke. May as well have put neon signs saying, "Here's dinner".

[Pete Collin]

I live in the middle of my village and it's hard to grow anything on my lawn!  Deer are voracious, and they know where they're safe during hunting season!