Hi!
I am so happy I found your discussion group while researching
Hemlocks
and other trees native to NYC and environs. I'm a volunteer
assistant
to the curator of the NYBG Forest and I'm working on a winter
tree id
booklet for the arborists and Forest volunteers and I would love
to
get some input/advice. Especially about some of the more
difficult to
identify trees.
I hope I can figure out how to post pictures. I wanted to ask
if
anyone thinks some quarter size holes in an older sugar maple
(probably >100ya) were made by the Asian long-horned beetle or
maybe
just woodpeckers, or something else I don't know about. It's a
beautiful and healthy tree now. And it's in such prominent
location
that if the insects were after it, they would immediately treat
it.
Is this the right forum for me to discuss all this? I hope
so. I've
learned a lot looking through past post topics.
Jenny
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/3b7200e2d3f3b0b1?hl=en
[Jennifer Dudley, March 26, 2009]
Hemlock Views 1906 to 2009
Hi,
Ed suggested I take current pictures of the sites of the old
postcards
I posted earlier of NYBG in the early days. Here is a colored photo
taken in 1906 and 3 pictures in the exact same location taken
yesterday. Even though the hardwoods have not leafed out, it's
apparent what is sadly missing....
Jenny
http://picasaweb.google.com/JennifDudley/HemlocksThenAndNow?feat=directlink
[Jennifer Dudley, April 8, 2009]
Early succession in the dead Hemlock Grove
Hi,
I am trying to identify the vegetative species coming up in the
old
hemlock groves at
NYBG.
As far as natives, I see Black Cherry (Prunus
serotina), White Ash, Red Maple, and Beech, and (I think) sweet gum,
so far. Are these the same species more or less that you all are
seeing in different parts of the east in old hemlock habitats? Or in
any recovering habitats, for that matter?
I found an old closed-off Hemlock trail at
NYBG and
took some pix, if
you want to take a look (there are 3 happy pix at the end!!! You
wouldn't believe they were taken in the Bronx NYC). The first photo
is
the entrance to that same path 100 years ago. Also, the yellow tape
around one of the trees is a hemlock they are planning to cut down.
http://picasaweb.google.com/JennifDudley/OldHemlockTrailNYBG?feat=directlink
Thanks!
Jenny
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/df0b61446f65b6c9?hl=en
[Jennifer Dudley, June19, 2009]
ENTS,
Made a one minute video at a spot on the Bronx River where I had
posted pix last winter. The river banks here were dominated by
hemlock
as recently as 1985.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaWc7Vc1b9Q
Let me know what you think. Thanks!
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