tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32635306652143991792024-02-07T22:01:22.206-08:00A Inside View of ForestLarry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07540981387916580053noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263530665214399179.post-9334680986400410852015-01-16T12:49:00.006-08:002015-01-16T12:49:48.613-08:00Identify America's 100 Most Common Trees<h1 itemprop="headline" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Slab, Georgia, serif; font-size: 44px !important; line-height: 41px !important; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 2px !important; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Identify America's 100 Most Common Trees</h1>
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A Guide for Specific Tree Identification</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Start your tree ID with my<span style="color: #0099cc;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://drsania.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Tree </a>Finder and Tree Leaf Key</span></span> if you are not sure what kind of tree you have and the tree has leaves. If you have a<span style="color: #0099cc;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box;">dormant tree</span></span> with no leaves in winter, review my <span style="color: #0099cc;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://drsania.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Winter Tree Finder</a></span></span> and my <span style="color: #0099cc;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box;">Dormant Tree Photo Gallery</span></span> for extra help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here are the most common <span style="color: #0099cc;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box;">North American hardwoods</span></span> or trees variously known as angiosperms, broadleaf, deciduous and hardwoods. These trees are <a href="http://drsania.weebly.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0099cc;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box;">abundant in both individual tree count and varieties of species in the Eastern North American forest</span></span>. </a>Hardwood foliage are leaves that can be broad or narrow, thick and thin generally shed annually and can be aligned in an alternate or opposite arrangement. The mature fruits are <span style="color: #0099cc;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box;">acorn</span></span>s, nuts, berries, pomes, drupes, samaras, capsules.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333c3d;">Today Greenpeace released a </span><span style="color: #7ebd20;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://drsania.weebly.com/" target="_blank">report</a></span></span><span style="color: #333c3d;"> exposing Best Buy, the giant electronics retailer, for fueling destruction in Canada’s Boreal Forest. Our report reveals the company is sourcing an incredible </span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://drsania.weebly.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">100 million pounds</span></a></strong><span style="color: #333c3d;"> of paper every year from this ancient forest to produce throw-away flyers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333c3d;">Best Buy is even sourcing this paper from controversial logging company </span><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://drsania.weebly.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Resolute Forest Products</span></a></span><span style="color: #333c3d;"> which is responsible for the destruction of vast swathes of Canada’s Boreal Forest, degrading critical caribou habitat and logging without the </span><span style="color: #7ebd20;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://drsania.weebly.com/" target="_blank">consent</a></span></span><span style="color: #333c3d;"><a href="http://drsania.weebly.com/" target="_blank"> </a>of impacted First Nations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We wrote this report to bring to the public’s attention something surprising. In the digital age, a company that specializes in gadgets and electronics is wasting ancient forests to make flyers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The problem isn’t using paper made in the Boreal. The problem is using massive amounts without making sure it comes from sustainable sources. Most responsible companies have clear policies to ensure sustainable fiber in their supply chains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333c3d;">Companies like Kimberly-Clark and Hewlett-Packard have these safeguards in place. But not Best Buy. When Greenpeace compared Best Buy against the others, we were surprised to find the company has no requirements for avoiding </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #a64d79;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://drsania.weebly.com/" target="_blank">endangered species habitat</a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333c3d;"> or respecting </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://drsania.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Indigenous rights</a></span>.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333c3d;"> No preference for Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified forests!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These are basic criteria that the public expects and forests demand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Best Buy <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">says</em> that “sustainability must be an essential element of everything the company does.” But do they mean it? The real test is whether they take concrete action to clean up their supply chains and start buying sustainably.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clearly, they’re #NotTheBest, yet. Today, that is our message to BEST BUY: you can do BETTER!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Forests are habitats in which the trees are the dominant form of vegetation. They occur in many regions and climates around the globe—the tropical rainforests of the Amazon basin, the temperate forests of eastern North America, and the boreal forests of northern Europe are just a few examples.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The species composition of a forest is often unique to that forest, with some forests consisting of many hundreds of species of trees while others consist of just a handful of species. Forests are constantly changing and progress through a series of successional stages during which species composition changes within the forest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thus, making general statements about forest habitats can be difficult. Yet despite the variability of our planet's forests, there are some basic structural characteristics that many forests share—characteristics that can help us to better understand both forests and the animals and wildlife that inhabit them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mature forests often have several distinct vertical layers. These include:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These different layers provide a mosaic of habitats and enable animals and wildlife to settle into various pockets of habitat within the overall structure of a forest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">forest floor</span> is often blanketed with decaying leaves, twigs, fallen trees, animal scat, moss, and other detritus. The forest floor is where recycling occurs, fungi, insects, bacteria, and earthworms are among the many organisms that break down waste materials and ready them for reuse and recycling throughout the forest system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">herb layer</span> of the forest is dominated by herbaceous (or soft-stemmed) plants such as grasses, ferns, wildflowers, and other ground cover. Vegetation in the herb layer often gets little light and in forests with thick canopies, shade tolerant species are predominant in the herb layer.</span></div>
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