Both interesting and sad. Down here in SW central PA, the Beech grows everywhere, and it has a shiny, silver, almost muscular-looking bark. No sign of blight here. I've been working on breaking down a rather large windsnapped fork over the last two days. Beech makes a smooth, clear, tight-grained hard wood with a color that's nearly as light as Maple; sort of resembles Bamboo, but without the segmentation. It's dense and heavy, and as a fuel, burns hot. Its nuts are tiny, with little meat, but they can be roasted over a fire in a can to make a popcorn-tasting snack. Naturally, the squirrels here are gorged. On my parcel, the Beech is so abundant that it's _almost_ a nuisance. The area, I suspect, was once a Beech-Maple climax forest, and so the tree has developed a strategy to re-populate holes in the canopy by shooting up dozens of saplings from any near-surface roots. In the areas that have been logged (around 15 years back), thick clusters of these shoots can be both annoying and too abundant, so I've been forced to hatchet many of them in an effort to restore balance. Selecting the saplings also helps to keep the trees that _do_ end up making it straight, injury-free, and hopefully more disease resistant. Having personally witnessed what an invasive species can do (Japanese Knotweed), I keep my fingers crossed hoping that nothing will blow into my area. But people still keep buying their decorative plants.
@ERLong-ww7yn
8 ай бұрын
Knotweed has become a real problem here in our province
@TitusOutdoorLiving
Жыл бұрын
Good videos, our beech population in souther New Brunswick is pretty much non existent. The few that are left and produce nuts are great feed for the blue jays this past summer. Thanks for the videos
@demetrioshristovski4518
9 ай бұрын
this is really weird content to watch. I am an RPF in BC, and have practiced forestry in 2 provinces, and underwent a Forestry Undergad in Ontario - may I ask why you use Imperial measurements? Never seen this before in canada. Is New Brunswick that connected to US, to use imperial? Does Irving use imperial?
@ERLong-ww7yn
9 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching. The content on my channel is based on observations and actual boots on the ground experience gained over 5 decades of woods work. I don't swallow the hook and line doctrine of industrial forestry. I still tend to use imperial measurements because I'm an old fashioned kind of guy.
@demetrioshristovski4518
9 ай бұрын
@@ERLong-ww7yn Right. I have no qualms respecting people's land development or cultural use of the land. l am from Canada too, where people are free to decide Ontario, NB, Quebec, NS forest development cant be compared to BC and Alb. It is decades behind.
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