{"id":154,"date":"2023-03-11T14:20:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/?p=154"},"modified":"2023-03-11T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:22:48","slug":"tree-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/2023\/03\/11\/tree-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Identification Process<\/strong>: Before heading out for the day, we climbed up the set of stairs tracing the higher ridge of the thrust fault to gain a new perspective on our usual waterfront landscape. Approaching these stairs, a lone paper birch tree caught my eye. I saw the distinctive curls and peels of its white bark, and knew it had to be. Recognizing that one of its lookalikes may have thrown me for a loop, I looked more closely at the gray birch, river birch, and yellow birch online to ensure I was not mistaken. In my investigation, the darker color of the yellow birch&#8217;s bark, the lack of peels in the gray birch, and texture change in the river birch confirmed my suspicions that the tree standing tall before me was, in fact, a paper birch.<\/p>\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=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5182-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5182-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5182-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5182-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5182-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5182-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My Tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_7820-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_7820-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_7820-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_7820-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_7820-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_7820-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Me With my Tree!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5176-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5176-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5176-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5176-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5176-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5176-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My Tree but Closer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"559\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5552-559x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5552-559x1024.jpg 559w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5552-164x300.jpg 164w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5552-768x1407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5552-839x1536.jpg 839w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5552-1118x2048.jpg 1118w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_5552.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identification Process: Before heading out for the day, we climbed up the set of stairs tracing the higher ridge of the thrust fault to gain a new perspective on our usual waterfront landscape. Approaching these stairs, a lone paper birch tree caught my eye. I saw the distinctive curls and peels of its white bark, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/2023\/03\/11\/tree-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tree Analysis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"rjsummer","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/author\/rjsummer\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rjsummer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}