Name: Bark: Get to know your trees
Start: 2024-09-07T10:00:00-04:00
Location: Cooke Ave entrance Northampton, MA 01060, United States

The traits typically used to describe trees—leaves, twigs, and buds—are often hard to see or seasonally absent. Join Michael for an exploration of bark, which is always visible in any season. As you hone your perceptive abilities you will learn about a system for identifying tree species by their bark, and discover why such a variety of bark characteristics exist. How does bark form? Why do some species have smooth bark, while on others
it is thick and broken? Why does bark peel? We will explore these and other questions as we examine the various trees along Boggy Meadow Rd.
BBC’s walk programs are free and open to the public. We ask that you register beforehand, which will allow us to answer any questions you might have and notify you of any changes or cancellations. To sign up for any of the following walks, please send an email to Dave Pritchard at Registrar@ BroadBrookCoalition.org. Please check the Broad Brook website (broadbrookcoalition.org) for more information on any of these programs, or call Dave Pritchard (413-695-8442) or Dick Wynne (413-584-7930).