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I've left the ID at just "oak" more than once. You can usually find three different leaves on a given oak tree that look as if they came from three different trees. Sometimes it's a case of using a combination of leaves, bark, twigs and buds. Loggers have it easy. Lumber is separated into either...

Al, if someone corrected you it is possible that they were simplifying the whole Red vs. White oak group thing by calling every species in the red oak group red oaks, which would be incorrect. Both Red and White oaks are merely the species heading up those two broad divisions. The terminology...

Red oak normally has less vertical breaks in the bark than that one, other than at the very base. It also isn't commonly found in the pine barrens. Southern red (aka Spanish) oak is found closer to the coast and has bark closer to that in that photo. But if I had to take a guess based on what I...

The lab goes hiking with me all the time but this one's a little too young yet. But she'll be hiking soon enough, and come next season, bunnies beware!

The leaf edges are a little toothy for Catalpa. I was thinking maybe Paulonia. But then again, the petioles look kinda fleshy. If that's the case Burdock could very well be possible. The clump-like leaf arrangement points to that species as well. But where are the velcro burrs? It's already...

I've always been somewhat perplexed by the first line on the monument, stating that the cultivated blueberry industry started on that site. This seems to contradict the history commonly presented regarding Elizabeth White and Fredrick Coville, and their work at Whitesbog. The next two sentences...

I'd like to look at this discussion from a slightly different perspective, taking a stance that I've applied more to debates that get bogged down (bogged, get it? ;)) on plant or animal species ID rather than on habitat labeling, but I think it applies here as well. One of my fellow naturalists...

Mow something that purdy? Never!!! Roundup........ maybe. :jd:

Wells Mills? Never heard of it. Plant is staggerbush though, Lyonia mariana

I reject the idea that sites such as this have little value other than for the proposed use. While areas impacted this severely certainly don't bounce back as quickly as a burned or logged site might, it is no more impacted than much of the Northern Hemisphere was after several scourings by...

Amen to that

I could not agree more. I was skeptical of this program at its inception, as I am of most new ventures which any level of government attempts, but it has been tremendously successful. I find it hard to keep track of all the recent acquisitions and am impressed by the number of new brown Natural...

Freddie Fungus and Alice Algae took a lichen to one another, and now their relationship is on the rocks. (One way to remember what they consist of :))

No matter what you thought of him personally or the controversy that often surrounded him, he was a great fighter, especially in his prime, pre-rope-a-dope days. I pretty much lost interest in pro boxing after the Ali/Frazier era.

Another factor that comes into play is the color of the sediments lining the creek bottom, rather than that of the water. I've seen cases where long exposure to the processes that result in what we refer to as "cedar water" staining those sediments a darker color than the water itself. Even in...

Interesting article. The mention of pike being fished for in the lake caught my eye. Perhaps they were stocked? Or maybe just plain old misidentification. Wouldn't be the first time.

Dang it Bob! Ya got me all worked up for a flower. I guess they're nice too. I saw my first yellow lady's slippers ever two weeks ago along the Big Flatbrook. Unfortunately I didn't have a camera or cell phone on me, only a flyrod.

Several of those distinctions are comparing conservationists to preservationists, not to environmentalists. Nothing of substance that I see there anyway, mostly self-serving and inaccurate characterizations. A group will rarely be accurately defined by its detractors.

While I expect it from developers and others motivated by either greed or indifference to rape the environment, I cringe when anyone who pursues outdoor activities denigrates environmentalists. The term can be accurately applied to a broad range of people and organizations, and the PETA and...

While certainly not rock-solid evidence, the closest I've found is Arthur Pierce's description in his book, Iron in the Pines, where he cites former Wharton Estate caretaker Leeson Small describing the ruins as that of a combined barn and pit silo. He also describes in detail the location of the...