Compared to the beginning of the semester, my site looks widely different. For starters it was the dead of winter when we started and the ground was covered by a thick blanket of snow. The trees were completely barren as well. Now the trees and other plants are full of buds that will soon become …
Monthly Archives: April 2023
Nr2 Phenology Post 5
There is no snow left at my site and the entire forest floor is now visible again. The ground is extremely muddy and wet with the newly melted ice and snow. My tree still is hanging on to a few dried out leaves left over from the fall. There is in general a lot more …
Nr2 Phenology Post 4
There haven’t been many changes to my red oak or my site. The snow has melted a lot more but not entirely yet. Around the base of tree there is almost no snow. I don’t have any photos from this visit unfortunately.
NR2 Phenology post 3
At my site in red stone woods I found a Northern Red Oak. I identified it based on its dark reddish gray brown bark with defined ridges running down it. Other oak trees look very similar in the winter, however white oaks have very different bark. Their bark has ridges, however it does not have …