WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? This hemlock refuses to die. I was out treating some hemlocks for hemlock woolly adelgid and found this cool stump, healing over. This obviously dead hemlock had been cut down a few years back. I assume its roots are grafted to neighboring hemlocks stillContinue Reading

WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? One of my favorite flowers is that of flowering dogwood (Cornus florida). Some have been devastated from dogwood anthracnose, a disease that has wreaked havoc on this small-statured tree. Many can still be seen lining forest edges in the lower elevations of the Catskills.Continue Reading