{"id":80,"date":"2023-03-04T13:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T18:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/?p=80"},"modified":"2023-03-04T13:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T18:17:02","slug":"tree-identification-1-finding-my-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/2023\/03\/04\/tree-identification-1-finding-my-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree identification #1: Finding my tree :)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I originally didn&#8217;t have a plan for what tree I was going to search out among the many on my site, but after spotting a paper birch down by the water I figured I would use it for identification. I&#8217;ve always like Paper Birch. When I was younger I would harvest the peeling sheets of &#8216;paper-like&#8217; bark and use charcoal to try and write on it. I would crumple it up and start little fires, bursts of flames that crackled like a hungry inferno and then burnt out in an instant. I still like to cut kindling from birch, I find that it makes the first steps of building a wood fire easier and more enjoyable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This particular Birch stood by itself among a variety of young Maples and Beach trees. I could tell that it wasn&#8217;t a yellow Birch because&#8230; welp&#8230; it wasn&#8217;t yellow. I could tell it wasn&#8217;t a River Birch because mature River Birch is much darker and &#8216;scaley&#8217;. Gray Birch was the last &#8220;lookalike&#8221; I had to rule out to make sure it was indeed a Paper Birch. After some research, I found that, unlike paper Birch, Gray Birch bark doesn&#8217;t peel off in sheets. After making sure that my tree wasn&#8217;t one of its lookalike species, I took some pictures for my iNaturalist post and continued to explore my site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-04-at-12.43.06-PM-1024x514.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-04-at-12.43.06-PM-1024x514.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-04-at-12.43.06-PM-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-04-at-12.43.06-PM-768x385.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-04-at-12.43.06-PM-1536x771.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-04-at-12.43.06-PM-2048x1028.png 2048w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-04-at-12.43.06-PM-1568x787.png 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">iNaturalist Post (Phenology Feature: No sign of Flowering)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"82\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Paper-Birch-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Paper-Birch-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Paper-Birch-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Paper-Birch-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Paper-Birch-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Paper-Birch-1-1568x2091.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Paper-Birch-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tree Base<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"83\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Paper-Birch-2-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Paper-Birch-2-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Paper-Birch-2-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Paper-Birch-2-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Paper-Birch-2-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/files\/2023\/03\/Paper-Birch-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tree Canopy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was fun exploring the rest of my site. The river was frozen over for the first time so I walked around on the ice. I found some Grey Fox tracks (or maybe Red Fox) and spotted a cool Northern White Cedar on the side of a cliff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I originally didn&#8217;t have a plan for what tree I was going to search out among the many on my site, but after spotting a paper birch down by the water I figured I would use it for identification. I&#8217;ve always like Paper Birch. When I was younger I would harvest the peeling sheets of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/2023\/03\/04\/tree-identification-1-finding-my-tree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tree identification #1: Finding my tree :)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"fhmurphy","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/author\/fhmurphy\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fhmurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}