Thank you, Adam. My daughters and I have been watching and learning from you for some ten years now. You’ve really added to our educational life. Thank you kindly, dear friend. I appreciate you so much. 🤗
Great stuff! Title made me think of Monty Python. They have an episode with almost the exact phrase as a running gag. How to identify trees from a long ways away. “Number three: the larch. The larch.”. Will save!
retired forest engineer & district conservationist - nice video that outlined the process for analyzing forest details .. a skill that folks who work in the field obtain through exposure & experience .. would suggest you introduce your audience to the usda conservation service soil surveys for their county which is one of the most detailed and accurate scientific documents available to people really interested in understanding local ecology .. it's all about the soil where the organic & inorganic meet ...
When I was a land surveyor we had to know trees but we were never taught this particular well I want to say talent because it is a talent but we were never taught this way to identify trees at a distance this is extremely important in surveying especially in locating some corners and even property lines. Thanks so much Adam this is fantastic I really do enjoy this although I don't survey anymore it still helpful at least for me because I'm still interested in trees Etc. Thanks again for the video Adam stay s vigilant!
Hey Adam, I asked myself this same exact question about the late yellowing trees on the way home from work yesterday! I'm also in PA, the north central province where the ridge and valleys meet the Allegheny plateau. They were on a north facing slope with a history of logging and road disturbance so I figured Norway maple or big tooth Aspen as well. My favorite thing to do on road trips as a passenger is spot the species as we're driving by on the highway and guess at the ecology of the area. As a forager, distant tree identification is an incredibly useful skill to share with people and I feel like an entire playlist could be dedicated to this topic. Especially to discuss the "character" of each tree in different seasons and to compare the species which exemplify opposite extremes of a characteristic. For example, black walnut twigs- which are thick and few per branch- versus birch and beech- fine and dense like hair by comparison, and hickory which is like black walnut thickness but at the density of an oak. Or in summer- the uniform dangling blue grey clusters of northern red oak contrast against the dense billowy broccoli shapes of a sugar maple. And silver maple's long reaching prong-shaped branches are unmistakable in a bottom land habitat, with red maple showing characteristics of both silver and sugar maple equally. All this can be spotted very far away and can tell us so much. Thank you for teaching it!
In my neck of the woods, west of Toronto Ontario: the one tree that still had yellow leaves on its branches in November was a surprise. Like in the video, I know the land was an old homestead and the leaves were unlike any native tree I’ve ever seen. The leaf was smaller than basswood. Not as heart shaped as large toothed aspen, or cottonwood. Until I found a small tree with the heaviest looking fruit hanging like Christmas ornaments! As big as a softball yellow like a golden delicious. Osage-orange! Not native but naturalized, by settlers, used as natural fencing for its barbed branches. The little encounter enriched my whole hiking experience✨
Hey bro this is what I need your an absolute boss love your spirit and passion you have the best RU-vid channel Noone is as informative and entertaining as learn your land Thanks Adam 😊
Great video. In my part of Maine at this time of year you can pick out the tamarack trees from miles away. Every other tree is either green because it's an evergreen, or brown and leafless. But the tamaracks are a beautiful blazing yellow.
I like your editing style. I realize that I need to put more effort into my creative edits. Thanks Adam. Not knowing East Coast trees it is interesting to see the differences.
Thanks for the tree ID lesson, from a distance. I live in NW Florida. Many of our trees stay green all the time. However we have a few species that shed their leaves. Such as oaks. Thanks again! Enjoy your vids!
Awesome tips. Why does some years all trees seem to turn colours together and others staggered. Obviously different triggers. On temperatures or available light?
Great video Adam. You should have a gathering a couple times a year where you could teach a topic like this one or perhaps one on fungi etc. I always learn something from you. Thank you.
I’m proud that my initial reaction to the bright yellow leaves on the mostly grey-brown hillside was aspen, and I love that you’ve now explained how that was my subconscious judgement. I love learning this kind of thing from you, thank you!
Looks like you are standing under an oak : ) I find your videos awesome. I find botany and taxonomy very interesting. I am a mazer (mead maker), and I find knowledge of the aforementioned subjects handy in identifying wild plants that I use in my mead. Just on my property alone (12.84 acres in western NY, just south of Lake Ontario) I have a plethora of wild plants growing here that I use in my meads. I have dandelion, spruce tip (from Norway spruce, I call it Christmas in a bottle), wild grape, honeysuckle, black raspberry, and staghorn sumac. Keep up with the awesome videos! (As a mycologist I'm sure you'd appreciate the medicinal dose Reishi mead I made with anise and maple syrup at 17.689% ABV.)
Your meads all sound fabulously delicious. I didn't know that Honeysuckle was even 'edible'...?! It is my favorite flower scent however, and does make a lovely, light-scented perfume. My two younger sons both like making mead. I'll have to see if they would try honeysuckle. I also want to try juniper berry and dandelion. Anyway, happy brewing to you. 🙂
@@Greye13 Thank you for the compliment. The first mead I ever made was dandelion, and it morphed into a dandelion raisin and turned out to be in my opinion, the best one I've made so far at 18% ABV. Honeysuckle is a delicate adjunct. Make sure to use a neutral honey like a clover blossom. Flowers like honeysuckle and dandelion are delicate and can take some aging to pull the essence back out. This because "green/young" brews need to age so off (pungent) flavors can dissipate and let the gentle scent/taste of the flowers shine. Have a good one and enjoy the season.
@@littlebones88 Neutral honey for the delicate flowers - that's good to know. It makes sense that younger plants, etc., would need to age longer, to reach their full flavor. Dandelion and raisin is an interesting combination and it actually sounds pretty good. Thank you for the tip, I really appreciate it, and may you also have a wonderful season. 🍃🍂🍁
Adam, i thought the American chestnut was extinct, i bumbed into an old timer in PA hiking the higland ridge trail who told me he found some and was going to check on them.
@@jphickory522 thank you for your response...I thought the same here in TN so I asked family out of state....they saw more red too? So why is this? I wonder
I have no idea the reason. We had an unusually dry Sept. Maybe that affected some of the oaks to have more red color this fall? Did you have unusually dry Aug or Sept?
@@jphickory522 we normally have really dry July's and Augusts here...but yes Sept was dry. That is the only thing I could think of too.....but it happened to a tree in NE OH....they had a mild summer not too hot or dry at all. ?
Aspen trees grow fairly fast. They also have flat stems that connect to the twig; that is why they flutter. I knew it was an Aspen as soon as I saw the pic. Correct about old strip mines and Aspen. Nice video. I didn't realize that Aspen were one of the last to drop their leaves. :)
We had a really good year for fall color here in mid-Michigan. Some weirdness, though, in my homogeneous urban neighborhood. The big silver maple in my neighbor's yard, which always turns red -- turned yellow! While another big silver maple not far away turned red. On the same day when both of those trees had lost most of their leaves, yet another silver maple was still green! I can't account for it by site or anything.
I noticed some differences in our trees here in Mid TN. In fact I was noticing more red trees so I went for a walk.....to find they were oaks that usually are never that bright red. We had drought. Don't know if that had anything to do with it?
Hi Adam!! I’m in Michigan and we had 2 droughts ..1 in July the other September…really messed up the mushroom season at those times for me😔 Your passion for the outdoors is the same as mine. I love your work..Thank you😊💙🌎
Interesting...I still don't know many trees...I am illiterate when it comes to vegetation in general and still need to learn a lot...thank you for trying to fill me in 🥰
Nice..I had guessed big toothed Aspen at the beginning..not knowing any details that you mentioned during video..I didn't know they turned yellow late or anything..just looked like Aspen or poplar
Episode 12B "How to recognise different types of trees from quite a long way away." No. 1: The Larch, The Larch _Just hoping your smile can be as broad as Adam's_
My guess was swamp maple. We don't get Big-toothed Aspen around here, and the Quaking Aspen have all lost there leaves by the seasonal point shown in your video. Also hard to see the fluttering from the first shot. Happy with my diagnosis. More of these would be great.
I identified my trees when I returned from Alaska (Fairbanks) when I heard them "quake", just like the ones I heard, saw and painted when at the University. I love that noise, so it was eaasy. I like your presentation though because some kinds are a mystery. I will ask questions, thank you.
I’d say I’d impressed myself by guessing the correct answer right at the beginning but I probably would’ve said aspen no matter what because quaking aspen is the main color changing tree at higher elevation here in the west.
When ever I go on a hike, and need to identify a tree , my 7 steps are : 1) Know the territory....what is the ground make up like ? Is it covered in identifiable leaf matter? Is the ground acidic, or filled with ground mulch (humus) ? Is it sandy ? what water source is nearby ? 2) Always bring BINOCs on your hike to explore the neigbouring trees around 3) Identify the Shape of the Tree ? is it Conical, Pyramidal (Pine) ? Is it Round (Oak), spreading or Oval (maple) shaped ? Is it columal (Popular) , weeping (Willow) or Irregular 4) Are the branches of the tree , Opposite or Alternate ? Are their nuts or fruits on the tree ? 5) What kind of Bark can you see on the tree ?? Vertical Lenticels , Horizontal lenticels ? peeling bark (Birch) ? Smooth or rough scaly bark ? 6) Identify by shape of leaves on branches ? Do the leaves have a dull color ? or are the leaves shiny ? 7) Have fun...no perfect expectations...remember its a Journey, not a mission
Great vid Adam! This was super helpful. Can you do a video on how to identify trees just looking at an old stump or log? I've always been curious on how people are able to identify when bark may be absent, and the log is so broken down that it's turning into little wood chips!
I have a question about mushrooms, After frost will they still grow? We had one big frost here in East TN then it's gotten really warm again. Like 78 here in November seems like every yr this happens.
This is great, thanks for changing the way I think. I didn’t think I needed to hear this ( I did guess the tree ) but your process is a really useful practice. Thanks
Hello Adam, you have a new subscriber here. I have seen three or four of your videos now and I am very impressed by your knowledge, skills, and your attention to details - such as the leaf edges of the different Aspens. 😄 I live in Colorado - what I call the heartland of Aspens. I absolutely love trees and Aspens are quite beautiful. I hope you're having a wonderful Autumn. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. 🌳🍃🍂🍁🌱🌲
Now you're asking yourself _'why would it be important to ID trees from a distance?'_ You want to ID them from a distance so that the bad ones never get close enough to attack you. Rogue tree attacks are responsible for more injuries and deaths each year than lightning, badgers and upturned rakes combined.
This is an interesting and informative video. I do enjoy your channel although I have a question. Does weather ; drought, high heat heavy rains etc affect when the leaves change color and drop ? 🍂
You are the Bob Ross of Mycology, Whenever I am stressed I watch your videos. In Your older videos you made me reminisce about Star Wars and Battlestar Gallactica as you looked like a cross between Mark Hamil/Richard Hatch. I wish I could identify Elms...I can never find Morels 😢
Hey that was brilliant thanks. I'm from Yorkshire, England and guessed a kinda birch (with no real idea of your trees) so felt fairly happy when you said it would've been a good guess. Your knowledge and how you break it down was excellent. Subscribed oh and thank you for calling it Autumn
Grew up in Nebraska City, Nebraska, home of Arbor Day, my father taught agriculture and taught us how to identify trees close and distant. Even Girl Scouts we studied trees. A great subject
Since I live in an area dominated by evergreens, most of your four questions are useless. A question that works for both evergreens and deciduous in all seasons is GROWTH HABIT. It's also the most reliable clue with evergreens.
Love the content from this man!My family an I were wondering if anyone knows if you can preserve what you find in the wild? Weather by canning, drying, pickling, salting, etc? Be it nettles, dandelion, mushrooms, etc all the various sources of natural food shown on here?
Years ago when I took botany at SUNY Morrisville we had a morning class in the college arboretum. Best class time of all, we learned to key out types of trees. The first question was it evergreen or deciduous. I enjoyed the class but never got that able to name the trees. My father, who was a farmer could tell many kinds of trees. His father and grandfather worked for years in lumber industry when they were clear cutting in Northern Pennsylvania, Potter County. Hard to imagine those hills there without the thick forest that grew back over the past 150years.
I wish he would offer a week long camping trip spring/summer/fall an teach people how to forage safely. He could make great money doing something he loves. Just a thought. I’d feel more comfortable with someone I feel is knowledgeable like this young man. Not everyone is qualified to teach some are more geared towards making fast cash.
Skills such as these are only acquired with actual dirt time. You can read, take classes, and research all you want, but it’s the dirt time that you yourself invest that really matters, because you can back up knowledge with experience. Challenge yourself safely incrementally, and don’t ever stop being a student: the best teachers, past and present, have never stopped being inquiring students.
as someone who is, even with coke bottle glasses, pretty horrifically nearsighted...... this is going to be extremely useful for me identifying trees at relatively close range. i've been having the Worst time IDing trees because of my eyesight, and this is so so so helpful. thank you!!
How to Identify Trees from a Distance ? Read many guidebooks, study for years, learn to identify the leaves of many dozens of trees in your area and beyond, spend lots of time outdoors noticing the particularities of species around you, and it wouldn't hurt to know a little about the geologic history and land use over the last few hundred years. Then ask yourself four questions ...
Adam, love your stuff! Can you or anyone out there help me? I live very near lake erie, have a tree near me that I can't identify up close or from a distance. The leaves are kind of elongated heart shaped, probably not a good description. But what really stands out are these pods hanging down below the leaves that look like long green beans. I think it's the only one I've ever seen, and have no idea what it is. Oh, it's pretty big, maybe thirty feet tall. Hope someone can help me out, thanks.
Thanks for the video. I love my current home, but I miss having trees. The nearest natural tree to my house is probably more than a mile away. If my health hadn't failed, I'd walk to the tree and identify it, but I can't get there. I know that it's some kind of small evergreen. There are some trees planted in town as part of landscaping. I've never thought much about them. They turn bright yellow in the fall, and this is aspen territory. I've always assumed that they were some kind of aspen.
