At the end of March, I walked through Centennial Woods trying to find a Northern Red Oak, Red Maple, Paper Birch, or and American Beech, but was having some trouble identifying any. I was able to identify this northern red oak when walking through campus instead by its bark and shape. Its bark has the scaly, rounded ridges of a northern red oak along with the brownish gray color. The tree also seems to have a bit of green within its bark, which I am assuming is a bit of moss.
