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Useless birch tree and geography trivia
Posted on 7/3/19 at 11:43 pm
Posted on 7/3/19 at 11:43 pm
The northernmost road in the contiguous United States is a dirt road in the Northern tip of Minnesota, which only is accessible by car through Canada, is named Birch Dr.
The Southernmost city, Key West,FL, has a road named Birchwood Drive.
The Easternmost point in Maine has Birch Point, which is less than 5 miles away.
The Westernmost point, in Washington State, has Birch Bay, only 100 miles away.
Birch trees are native to Washington, to Minnesota, and to Maine, but not to Florida.
Further, there are three major categories of birches: Western, Northern, and Eastern. Of which the Western is found in Washington, Northern in Minnesota, and Eastern in Maine, among other states.
So, perhaps our national tree should be the birch, instead of the oak.
The Southernmost city, Key West,FL, has a road named Birchwood Drive.
The Easternmost point in Maine has Birch Point, which is less than 5 miles away.
The Westernmost point, in Washington State, has Birch Bay, only 100 miles away.
Birch trees are native to Washington, to Minnesota, and to Maine, but not to Florida.
Further, there are three major categories of birches: Western, Northern, and Eastern. Of which the Western is found in Washington, Northern in Minnesota, and Eastern in Maine, among other states.
So, perhaps our national tree should be the birch, instead of the oak.
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Posted on 7/3/19 at 11:46 pm to East Coast Band
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Birch trees are native to Washington, to Minnesota, and to Maine, but not to Florida.
I thought the River birch, betula nigra, was native to parts of Florida.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 11:47 pm to East Coast Band
That's interesting
Seriously is
Seriously is
Posted on 7/3/19 at 11:50 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 7/3/19 at 11:52 pm to East Coast Band
Before the 1900's the American Chestnut was the predominant tree species in eastern forests.
Old quote, I think they have a good bit of research into resistant species now.
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Once, their creamy June bloom so festooned the eastern hardwood forests that they looked from afar “like a sea with white combers plowing across its surface,” wrote the naturalist Donald Culross Peattie. That annual exuberance of the American chestnut began fading from the landscape around 1904, when a blight imported on Asian chestnuts began rampaging from Maine to Georgia. By the 1950s destruction was complete. Of literally billions of chestnuts growing in the tree’s historic range when the blight hit, only dozens of pre-blight survivors struggle on in the wild today. Far more numerous are chestnuts that sprout from the roots of felled forest giants, only to die in a decade or two from the deadly fungus that may never go away.
Old quote, I think they have a good bit of research into resistant species now.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 11:57 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 7/4/19 at 12:03 am to East Coast Band
Am I the only one that initially read Useless bitch tree and chuckled?
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