This week I went out to Centennial Woods with my friends to look for some trees! Since we had finished our last classes before break, we went on an adventure to the ice caves as well. In particular we were looking for red maple, Northern red oak, paper birch, or American beech.
In my opinion, Paper Birches are the easiest tree to identify due to their distinctive bark. I spotted two of them as I approached my research area.
I could tell that these were paper birches because of their pale white bark which curled at the edges in some places. I could rule out their lookalike, yellow birch, because of the coloring of the bark.
