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Post by Dave Moore<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Associate Professor at the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona<\/em><\/p>\n

Reposted from\u00a0http:\/\/djpmoore.tumblr.com\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Just a couple more photos from our walk in the woods with Prof Kerry Woods.<\/a><\/p>\n

Since settlement of the US, Eastern Hemlock has been lost from many of the forests. Hemlock, once established, is a fantastic competitor and maintains it’s own dark, moist micro-climate beneath it’s branches. The effectively excludes other species from the location but allows the shade tolerant Hemlock seedlings to thrive.<\/p>\n

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This particular Hemlock is growing out of the darkness reaching out for light in a gap caused by a blowdown. The tree is taking advantage of a temporary resource that will likely disappear in the next few years.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Kerry Woods explains the gap dynamics of the Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation to our group. Kerry is standing waist deep in Sugar Maple seedlings – the trees are competing with each other to close the gap and make it to the canopy – but most of them will not survive.<\/p>\n

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Yellow Birch needs to start out on nurse logs on the forest floor. This is the reason you often find this tree growing in straight lines in a natural forest.<\/p>\n

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Rachel @rachelgallerys and Kelly (ND)<\/p>\n

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Kelly and Ann (from ND)<\/p>\n

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Evan (ND) and our driver<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/a>

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Post by Dave Moore,\u00a0Associate Professor at the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona Reposted from\u00a0http:\/\/djpmoore.tumblr.com\/ Just a couple more photos from our walk in the woods with Prof Kerry Woods. Since settlement of the US, Eastern … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247545,246902],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forests","category-in-the-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/paleonproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/paleonproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/paleonproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/paleonproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/paleonproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/paleonproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/paleonproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/paleonproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/paleonproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/paleonproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}