Questions tagged [trees]
A type of plant comprised of a large trunk, branches, and leaves.
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How do I make cordage from tree bark?
I'm trying to make rope from tree bark, but I couldn't succeed. Sometimes the cordage is too stiff, sometimes it is too fragile. I tried from a lot of trees available near me. I tried first with 2 ...
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What is this light blue (aqua) substance on these branches? Is it harmful to tree or humans?
I live in southern Ohio & we have numerous maple trees in our yard.
I've been cleaning up branches which fall to the ground for many years. I've noticed this light blue (or white-aqua) substance ...
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How do tree trunks get chevron patterns in the bark?
I went into German woods near Berlin and I saw hundreds of trees that look like this:
What is this? Why are people doing that? I tried to google for wood patterns, but these keywords don't show any ...
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Can deadfall make for good firewood?
This question is about firewood options on private land, in the Parry Sound region in Ontario, Canada
I've had loads of camping experience but always bought my firewood, now I have some land and am ...
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What are these painted markings on trees for? (not trail markers)
In one section of a trail I was on yesterday a large number of trees had markings like the following:
These are certainly not trail markings - the trail markers were entirely different (round plastic ...
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Do golden color pine trees associate with the name of Fluffy?
I went to a nursery over the weekend and purchased a golden colored pine tree. The nursery was calling them Fluffy Trees (picture below). This tree name really makes me laugh and smile but I am ...
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Do Redwood Trees grow in families?
I have heard a very interesting tree fact about Redwoods. These trees grow in a family unit. In doing some research I came upon the the term: "Fairy Rings" or family circles, are likely all ...
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How to attach climbing holds / rungs to a tree trunk without harming the tree
I've got a tall tree in the backyard that we use to practice belaying / abseiling (rappelling).
However, the lowest part of the trunk does not have any branches until up to 20' / 6m, so we use a lean-...
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I am torn between axe or hatchet, what would you recommend?
I was reading this article on axe or hatchet for camping and I am thinking on bringing a hatchet in my next trip.
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Can trees be treated to deter poachers?
I recently heard from a guy who decided to cut a cedar tree from a ditch line for a Christmas tree instead of buying one. He said that after getting it home and decorating it that it started to have ...
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What is this plastic net with a wide middle and bottom that looks like an upside-down flower hanging from a tree?
We recently (July, 2019) went to Bar Harbor, Maine, United States, to visit friends who live on the ocean. My husband took a walk on an established path (he's very serious about Leave No Trace) at the ...
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Looking for information about the large circles free of snow that form in the spring around the trunks of large trees?
We have often used the large snow free circles that form in the spring around the trunks of large trees as camping spots. Even in an area blanketed with deep snow, there will be such bare, dry ground ...
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Which tree produces heart shaped seeds enveloped in a long pod?
Which tree native to Florida produces these seeds? The pods are really long and the seeds inside are in the shape of little hearts.
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What are the components of a good climbing kit for recreational tree climbing?
I've enjoyed climbing and cutting trees for many years. I now want to go to higher levels, but safety is a primary concern, because I am afraid of heights.
I'm about to order gear for recreational ...
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What animal could entirely strip the bark of a birch like this?
I was snowshoeing in Quebec and saw these birch trees completely removed. There were fine what appeared to be teeth marks. The was moss that was left trees.
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What are uses of red spruce (picea rubens) by humans in a wilderness, primitive, or frontier setting?
What are uses for red spruce (picea rubens) by humans in wilderness settings (e.g. in primitive technologies, bushcraft, wilderness survival, low-tech rural livelihoods, frontier homesteading)? While ...
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What woods have been used to build primitive shelters in northern climates, especially around the Adirondacks Mountains?
I'm exploring primitive shelter building in northern cool temperate climates. I mean primitive as a compliment: the prime, first, original, indigenous, low-tech/base-tech. Things like the ...
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When to plant a potted live Christmas tree?
We purchased a small potted live Christmas tree. We want to plant it outside. The ground is not frozen, can we plant it the day after Christmas or do we need to wait until spring?
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How can I tell the difference between a Tentworm caterpillar and a Fall Webworm caterpillar by observing the web?
A question from August 13, 2018 asked what type of caterpillar was living in a cocoon on a tree at the Mass. Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary, on Mt. Wachusett, in Princeton, Central Massachusetts, USA. ...
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What is growing in these cocoon-looking structures found on a mountain in Massachusetts, USA?
We found a few things which we think are cocoons on a tree at Mass. Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary, on Mt. Wachusett, in Princeton, Central Massachusetts, USA. It was last week, mid-August. The tree ...
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Why do upside down tree leaves mean rain
So I have heard this saying a lot and would like to know if and why this is true because the leaves are upside down now and I have always been confused by this because some have told me nay and some ...
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Can removing dead wood harm the ecosystem?
My inlaws have about 40 wooded acres in the Mid Atlantic region. They are nice woods but the amount of dead wood on the ground is astounding. For the most part it makes walking through similar to a ...
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How can I get a GPS location for this tree on a distant hillside?
I want to hike to the base of this tree (circled in red in the photo). That's a hillside full of full grown trees beneath it, and it looks like over a full tree's height sticking up above the other ...
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Escaping tree well
Last week, while exploring tree snowboarding at Big Sky, MT, I ended up in a tree well. I was up to my waist and was able to crawl out. But it felt awkward and I see how I could sink deeper.
My ...
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What animal would chew up trees in West Georgia?
I live in the West Georgia area. We now have several trees chewed up beginning 5 feet off the ground and all the way around the tree, some to the very top. I found a birch that had a 4 foot section ...
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Shooting into tree
A few weeks ago, I strapped a target onto a tree that was about 1.5-2' in diameter to sight my muzzleloader on private property. I fired about a dozen .50 cal bullets into the tree.
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How to tell if piñon trees have good cones
I started harvesting pine nut cones from the piñon trees in my area yesterday and am a bit worried about the crop. From the cones I have been able to open I notice that most of the nuts are ...
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What kind of animal may have done this?
I was recently hiking around Finland with my girlfriend and we came across several trees that seem to have been had at by some sort of animal. I'm quite curious as to what it may be and any help would ...
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How does a tree with such an extreme curvature form?
Back in my hometown in Northeast Pennsylvania, I remembered that there was this tree down my road that had an extreme curvature to it. Now, I could see a branch of a tree growing like this, but this ...
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What is this tree with a spiral shaped trunk in Massachusetts?
On a recent hike at the Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary in Princeton, Massachusetts, my husband came across this tree.
The trunk is twisted in a spiral/curly fashion. It was in a forest of many other ...
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What causes a tree to split into multiple trunks?
There is this one tree (I believe an oak tree) near my road that is very large in size. Practically at the base of its trunk, it diverges into four other large trunks:
What causes this phenomenon in ...
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What is this tree with shiny leaves and a fuzzy seed pod?
I was walking my dog along this one stretch of side walk in my neighborhood and there are a few of these trees lined up along it. They have a fuzzy seed pod (or perhaps a flower pod?) that reminds me ...
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Is this fungus on a birch tree Chaga?
Once again found a fungi growing on birch and I'm not entirely sure what it is. It looks quite like the chaga fungi but I'm really not too sure! I have seen chaga in some videos before and it seemed ...
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What are these fungi that I've found growing on a dead birch?
What are these fungi I found on a dead birch? Initially, I thought perhaps artist's bracket or southern bracket, but now I think they might be horses hoof fungus? I'm not very knowledgeable about this ...
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How can I identify Woolly Adelgid on a Hemlock tree?
Note: An update has been added to this post, and is found below the first set of pictures.
I live in Central Massachusetts, in the town of Holden. We're on the border of the large city of Worcester.
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What kind of tree produces these long multi-seed pods?
My last question provided me with a very thorough answer and I'm hoping for the same thing with this one.
Another kind of tree in my area (southeast Virginia) produces these long seed pods with seeds ...
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How exactly do you cut down a tree with fire?
If I wanted to use fire to cut down a tree how would I accomplish this safely? Clearly if I build a big bonfire at the base of the tree it will burn down and possibly cause a forest fire.
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What kind of tree produces these seed pods looking like spiky balls?
I recently moved to southern Virginia near the coast (about 15 miles in from it). All over the ground are these spiky balls that I assume contain seeds to the tree they fall off of.
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How many trees are there in California you can drive through? [closed]
A Recent news event (Pioneer Cabin Tree in California felled by storms), brought drive through trees to mind. When I looked at the pictures, I realized it is not the same tree I drove through last ...
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Which types of animals would peel bark off this tree?
I'm just curious which animals would peel bark off a tree like this:
It's a riparian setting in the Mid Atlantic region. I was thinking maybe a beaver?
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How to assess the likelihood of a tree falling in a forest?
Sometimes while camping in forests, there will be dead trees around, or in forests where there was a fire, a high percentage of the trees will be dead. While it is not extremely likely that a tree ...
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Is it practical to tap a tree for syrup on an overnight stop?
We have a couple of questions about the legality of and how to tap trees to get sap. Tree sap is the source of sugary syrups like Maple or Sycamore. The sap can then be evaporated over a fire to ...
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Processing the fruit of chequers/wild service tree
How do I process the fruit of the wild service tree?
I know the berries need to be subjected to frost before they can be dried and consumed.
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How do you tap a tree for sap?
Related to this quetsion Tree tapping in the UK - Time and legalities. I have never tapped a tree.
How do you do this? What equipment is involved, etc?
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Can anyone help with identifying this tree?
The tree kind of resembles an ash but has green buds, there are pinnate leaflets with rounded tips
close up of leaflets
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This tree is located in Cambidgeshire in the United Kingdom
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What is a suitable workflow for cutting down trees? [closed]
I have many trees on my land that need to be cut down. I would like to know what suitable workflows there are for the whole process. Should I cut a tree down, cut it up into small pieces, and split ...
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How can I ascertain the proper harvesting/extraction period for birch syrup for a particular region?
My friends and I plan to go on a road trip, to tap and harvest some birch Tree sap/syrup, from a property up in Quesnel, BC. How do I know when is the right time to harvest?
Also; does the time to ...
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What are these bulges? Are they harming the tree?
My husband's brother came upon this tree while hiking up Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire, USA. This was his first time seeing bulges, for lack of a better word, like these. Knowing that I'm intrigued ...
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Do sugar maple trees ever flower in the fall in Ohio?
I know that most maple trees flower in the spring and produce seeds in the fall. However, it seems to be the reverse for the maples near me. I see seeds fall off in the spring which makes me think ...
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