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| found throughout PA in variety of habitats, typically reaching 50' high, grows best in wet soils, sometimes over 100'; also known as Soft maple because wood is not as hard as Sugar maple; ornamental; young trees browsed by deer and rabbits, rodents eat seeds |
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Eastern White Pine
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| Eastern white pines are large, usually 50-90' currently, but original "Penn's Woods" saw these pines reaching 150'; valuable timber tree, found in moist or dry woodlands; ornamental; squirrels, birds, mice and chipmunks eat seeds and soft needles; deer browse twigs; porcupine eat inner bark in winter |
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| typically reaching 50' high, sometimes over 100' |
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| also known as Soft maple because wood is not as hard as Sugar maple |
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| young trees browsed by deer and rabbits, rodents eat seeds |
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| Eastern White Pine:height |
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| Eastern white pines are large, usually 50-90'currently, but original "Penn's Woods" saw these pines reaching 150' |
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| Eastern White Pine: used for? |
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| Eastern White Pine:where found? |
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| found in moist or dry woodlands; |
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| Eastern White Pine:food for...? |
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| squirrels, birds, mice and chipmunks eat seeds and soft needles; deer browse twigs; porcupine eat inner bark in winter |
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| Rock Maple for its hard wood |
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| on the moist wooded slopes throughout PA |
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| important timber crop; furniture; musical instruments; flooring; sap for maple syrup |
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| Sugar Maple: food for...? |
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| birds, rodents eat seeds; deer, porcupine, mammals browse twigs, buds and bark |
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| construction; tannic acid for tanning leather |
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| Eastern Hemlock: food for? |
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| ruffled grouse,wild turkey, songbirds (seeds); deer when it snows and other food is scarce |
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| Black Locust: where found? |
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| open woods, floodplains, thickets, fencerows |
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| posts, poles, railroad ties, mine timbers |
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| bees make honey from nectar of locust flowers; squirrels eat seeds |
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| Yellow poplar, tulip poplar, white poplar, whitewood |
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| largest of the eastern hardwoods |
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| grows quickly; used for shade and timber |
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| deer feed on young growth; songbirds, gamebirds, rabbits, squirrels, mice feed on seeds |
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| Sweet Birch: also known as? |
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| black birch, cherry birch |
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| rich fertile lowlands to rocky ridges throughout the state |
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| furniture, boxes, fuel, sap for birch beer, oil subbed for wintergreen |
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| ruffled grouse feed on buds and seeds; deer and rabbits browse twigs |
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| White Oak: height and soil |
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| a dominant tree on dry to moist soil reaching 80' to 100' |
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| hardwood floors, whiskey barrels, boats |
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| important for people and animals; Native Americans made flour from acorns; wildlife food |
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| The famous Revolutionary War frigate, USS Constitution, was made of white oak |
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