Winter identification: telling native trees apart by bark, buds and twigs
How to identify a tree in winter by its bark, buds, twigs and pith, where the opposite-branching shortcut fails, and a table of winter signs for native trees.
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Measuring trees
Articles on measuring trees: the sine method for height, why tangent readings run tall, how to estimate a tree's age, and why its size is a poor guide.
These are for the trees you already have; what we sell arrives as a seedling or a young sapling and is measured by its age, not its height. The growth estimator turns a tree's height and trunk now into a projection of what a species does next.
Articles tagged Measuring trees
How old is that tree, really?
Forest trees live far longer than the lifespans quoted online, and open-grown trees are usually younger than they look. Both errors ignore how trees grow.
Why almost every tree height you read is too tall
Why the tangent method overstates big hardwoods by ten to thirty feet, how the sine method with a laser fixes it, and how tall eastern trees really get.