Whether we're tapping maples or taking a walk in the woods, it's always fun and interesting hanging out with you Levi. Looking forward to the next visit. 🌳🌳🌲🌲
Levi - Good to see you back on here! Thanks for educating us. We know your plate is full, but when you can your videos are appreciated. Good to see Thea and Thai at the end. Take care ...
Wow Mike I think you’re right! Just listened to the call on a video on RU-vid. Sounds just like it! You solved the mystery and very close to that nest is a swamp where we have frogs in!
I think you're right. After all of the heavy rains we just received, I've been hearing them around our home, which is tucked into a wooded, semi-wetland, area that would be a perfect habitat for them.
I will take all the tree knowledge you can spare. I have 30 acres I’m trying to manage into something parklike. Would appreciate any tree Id videos you want to make. Close up leaf , branch, and bark identifiers etc. thank you
@@ThaidupwiththeMorgans just wanted to add that you done a great job on the video. You've done your homework and it shows. Look forward to part #2! We also enjoy growing, planting trees, flowers, etc... Don't remember if I have your email but if I do, I'll send pictures of our granddaughters outrageous pumpkin patch. Uggh. Lol. Thanks.
Like father, like son. Great job Levi, and please continue your series on tree and tree identification. Your education is shining through here. I do have experience with red cedar going wild, if left in an open area when it sheds its seeds, you have a red cedar thicket in a few short years. Well that is my experience in SW Alabama. Thanks.
You’re a bright individual and you present yourself well and I can see where you get that from. I love to be in my woods and try to know what’s around me but you’ve opened my eyes Immensely. I look forward to more of your videos and yes, don’t be afraid to talk about dead animals. People need to get over Looking at dead critters. They’re everywhere so get used to it. LOL Thank you for a great video
Good to see you folks are doing good. Really enjoyed your identifying some of the trees close to your house. That animal in the tree was a squirrel, and possibly a flying squirrel at that. They get very nervous and quite vocal when you get near and sometimes vacate the nest. You'll have to go out and set where you can see the nest yet be sort of protected from sight and wait quietly and motionless and they will come out after a while to see what you are and what you're doing. Ty and Thea are really growing. Thanks for sharing Levi, you all take care and stay safe. Fred.
Fred thanks so much for answering. I feel silly living my whole life around squirrels and never noticing that before lol. I appreciate the answer. I will definitely do that!
Enjoyed this video Levi. Nice to learn about all the different species of trees in your area and how far they naturally extend. Hope your family is well and stay safe.
A very interesting and well done video Levi! I’d love to be sitting in a chair somewhere under a shade tree and listening to you talk for a long while.
Great job Levi. I have always enjoyed the outdoors and especially trees. I am with you also about the White Oak, such pretty wood. I also wish I had some American Chestnut trees to plant here in Alabama to get them reestablished but it looks like that may never happen. Now remember, "Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree".
Excellent video Levi...well presented. You certainly telegraph a passion with your knowledge. Wishing the best for you and your family. Stay safe, stay healthy. Go Oilers! 😊 Steve in Calgary
Excellent video and very informative, born and raised in Western PA I was familiar with many of the specifics but learned a lot. Nice seeing the little ones too.👍
Hi Levi, I listened to the sound you recorded and we have them in Georgia, It a grey squirrel nest, they build in most any tree, watched a possum climb up to one last summer and there was a ruckus apparently the squirrels threw it out and it hit the ground with a thud. I laughed for a while... Good job on your walk, American Chestnut will come up get big enough to make a few nuts then the blight kills them, I was told by Forestry people that the blight came over when the Chinese chestnut was introduced. In one of the mountain areas where the CCC camps cut down the trees trying to stop the blight I saw and cut on some of the logs that were 4 and 5 ft in diameter at the base what a loss. Cheers!
John, thanks so much for identifying the sound. That is so interesting I didn’t know that. Wow! That is massive. Just today I toured a property with a native plant group I’m apart of and he has similar stories of some very of American chestnuts.
Thanks Levi for the very interesting and informative video on your trees. You are very knowledgeable about trees, Mike has commented on your tree knowledge. Good to see you again doing some talking, always see you working with your dad Mike, but you hardly do and talking. You should start a RU-vid channel with your vast tree knowledge, maybe once a month. Thank Levi, I enjoyed watching this video.
Nice. I was one of the people that commented on your Dad's channel that I would appreciate more talk from you about trees. My college field Botany class was over 30 years ago now (crazy).
Thanks for the tree identification segment. We have many of the same species in Chattanooga, TN area. Looking forward to learning more about white oaks. We have loads of them here.
Very nice video Levi! This was very interesting, and a great explanation of the trees in your area. It is amazing just how many species you can find in a short walk!
I got a lot of useful information from this video. I will be checking out more of them from our upstate New York oak-frame post and beam homestead. Thanks
Levi, excellent video! Keep it up. Go with your gut. You have a great screen presence. This was my first visit to your channel. I never miss your dad's stuff. I have some serious catching up to do on your content. I learned a ton today. Thank you! A suggestion, if I may: maybe a series of shorts on individual native tree and under-growth species with quick facts and guides to more info - five minutes each - all contained in a playlist for easy reference - fascinating easy content for anyone who comes in contact with green things. (Make the videos in the summer and edit/publish in the winter when it's not as easy to get out in the woods.) I'm a fan. I live up the road in New Castle.
Thanks so much ! I appreciate the kind words. I also agree with your suggestion. That is exactly what I have in mind! Oh yeah you’re not far at all! Thanks for the support
Great job Levi. I just text your dad the other day about you doing a video like this. I always have trouble identifying our trees local to us. You definitely cleared up some of my confusion on tree species. Thanks again!
I live on a farm in Northern, Ky. and have approx. 30 acres of woods. A lot of the species you identified. 3 years ago a huge red oak went down and after I cleared up all the mess and cut the firewood I planted 4 American Chestnut trees in the clearing. They are doing ok and are about 3 ft. tall now. I have to keep them in cages to keep the deer off of them. I am very interested in trees, my Dad and brother and I have set about 17,000 trees on the farms. Ellis
This is the first time I’ve seen your channel. Love it,I am a tree guy. Love to take my books and go to different places and identify trees. I subscribed to you’re immediately. You appear to be very knowledgeable about trees.keep the great work up !
Must be so nice to have a large family property and be able to walk to your parent's house through a private forest. Great video. Keep an eye out for that invasive Japanese knotweed as it will spread rapidly.
That is one invasive I’ve never seen on our property thankfully. But it is all over some people’s yards close by and they use it in their landscaping. So I’m sure it will pop up eventually. I have heard some horror stories about it.
I'm the guy from Kansas that commented on the red cedars. The guy from Oklahoma that commented was also was exactly right with his comments. I will try and taken a couple of pictures of areas that are completely choked out with cedars. You must have some sort of forestry training.
Levi... you , Kate and the kids need to go see the Big Sequoias and Redwoods out in Calli... My Grandpa and Great Grandpa told me stories of the American Chestnut of the early 1900's into the great depression in Crum, Wva... and Louisa ky. area... They were huge!!! Trees are the life and filters of this planet!
The red woods and sequoias are a dream of mine! My dad as well has always wanted to see them. They look incredible. Wow that is so nice hearing those stories from them. So cool what our ancestors can share with us. Special
@@ThaidupwiththeMorgans I've taken all of my kids(5) out to the big fuzzy trees as they called the Sequoias... The serenity and peacefulness you get amongst the ancient ones is so soothing and calming to your soul.... It truly is a magical experience to feel the wisdom they exude... Humbling my wife calls it.
I live in Kansas and the red cedars can take over a pasture if you don't keep after them. If you cut them down, they will not regrow. Also fire is s good way to control them if you have a lot of them. The birds eat the berries on the trees and them and spread the seeds naturally. I think that where you are at, the canopy you have doesn't allow them to spread. You typically see them in wide open areas like pastures.
Enjoyable video. A great way of presenting your knowledge. A zoom of the trunk is beneficial, a guess as to the age of a subject plant and the fungi get to be the primary controllers of the under-world. I think Mycelia are possibly the major factor in determining distribution densities. In my long time ago professional world of coach tour driving and giving commentary here in Australia your presentation style would have been referred to as "Living Commentary". It's a great way to communicate to your audience and was a pleasure to listen and learn.
I would love to see more videos like this…. My yard has more trees than grass, and helping to learn more in identifying them would be great… oh, I live in northern part of CT…. Thanks…
On the property in Beaver County : it looks like a progression from farm to scrub with Black Locust. The locust only got to 3 or 4 inches before being over shadowed by silver maple. And Sumac at the road side. Horrible weed tree - fast grow, week. The locust dead fall are everywhere. They make great firewood but really dull a chain saw (actual sparks from the chain - so hard). Thanks for the tours. Take care
Thanks very interesting. Would also enjoy brief info on local invasives. Gonna try and start planning, propagating, the service bearing and the flowering dogwood. Trying my luck with pawpaw right now 😊
Great suggestion! I do plan to cover the invasive some people may not know about them and would be good to raise awareness. Good luck with the trees you’re growing. It’s a lot of fun.
Northern lower Michigan here, and the map for Red Cedar is missing our area for those. They're all over the place. Great video. Can't wait to see the next one. Wow, the kids are getting big.
I thoroughly enjoyed your video showing the trees in your yard. It was interesting seeing the range where the particular tree grows. I will save this video for future reference. If you ever come to Nashville, be sure to take the family to The Nashville Zoo at Grasmere. Also, you will love Cheekwood Estate and Gardens. I loved learning about the trees growing in so much of the Eastern United States. Please more videos sharing your knowledge and observations of the natural beauty in Pennsylvania.
Nice Video Levi. I would love i you would show a nice close up o the leaves & bark of each tree yo identity so that I would be able to ID them when I'm out in the woods. Greetings from the Old Jarhead in WNC (Western North Carolina)
Great video - fellow tree nerd here - one correction - latin for flowering dogwood is cornus florida (you showed pyrus communis accidentally... 😊). Great! Video - looking forward to the next!
I enjoyed this so much! I am 73 and have in recent years started trying to learn all the trees here in Missouri. I watch so many sawmilling videos and firewood videos and find that people don't always identify a tree they are cutting or milling. I could add my own comments about so many of the species you covered today, but I'll do just one. Here in Missouri, there is a fungus that grows on red cedar that also affects apple trees. All apple orchards have to deal with it by spraying to kill it during dormancy in the winter. I have an Cortland apple tree which is not prolific in my zone anyway that finally produced a few apples last year in spite of the fungus. I should try spraying it this winter to see if I can a decent crop. Summary- red cedar and apple orchards don't mix. Many people set out apple trees in hopes of harvesting their own, but soon realize the trees must be sprayed and just give up(I'm one of them). I suppose this is why the large apple producing states are the ones which do not have native red cedar. One last thing, the fungus on the cedars release their spores in such a way, that if the wind blows, the tree appears to be in a brown cloud. It's an amazing phenomena to watch.
I love the fragrance of the Black Locust! It's a very strong fragrance. Firewood's as good as oak. I hate the Honey Locust's 6" long needles, but it burns great!
enjoyed the video, thank you! I'm with ya man, I'm growing my own trees from seed and am on a mission to grow as many species as possible on my homestead here in Oklahoma!
Hi Levi, awesome video. Now I want to go out and count tree species on my property. Don’t know nearly as much as you about them, but we do have a abundance on the eastern red cedar down here in eastern NC. Really enjoyed the video.
