Western Hemlock - How to Identify Them! || Nerdy About Nature Tree Guide
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- čas přidán 15. 09. 2020
- Ouf, Western Hemlocks are absolute stunners out here in the temperate forests of Cascadia! With their cool twisting roots, trunks and crowns, their flowing feathery limbs full of mismatched needles of different sizes and shapes, then sprinkled with the cutest cones you'll ever see...gah, what beauties! Extremely shade tolerant and resilient, these trees are often second generational successors in healthy forest ecosystems, coming up in the shadows of their predecessors and often growing on their woody debris. While many people tend to refer to Hemlocks as 'weed trees', these are my absolute favorite conifers here in the Pacific Northwest for so many reasons that I can't even begin to get into, it's endless. I feel like I may need to do a whole follow-up episode purely on why I love them so much, but that blurs the line between a 'Tree ID Guide' and 'Ross just geeking out on metaphors and nature'!
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Produced & Directed by Ross Reid
~ I'd like to acknowledge that this video was filmed on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples-Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations. ~
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References:
- 'Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast' by Jim Pojar & Andy MacKinnon. Published by BC Ministry of Forests & Long Pine Publishing, Vancouver BC. 1994
- 'Northwest Trees: identifying & Understanding the Regions Native Trees' by Stephen F. Arno & Ramona P. Hammerly. Published by The Mountainers, Seattle, WA .1977
You’re great and your speech cadence and enthusiasm is perfect.
Ahh cheers bud!
I started the vid expecting an "informative voice" to start speaking, but was hit with your enthusiasm and passion instead...wow! Thanks so very much!
Heck yeah, thanks so much!
A very underappreciated tree. I love seeing all their little cones on the ground when hiking. Thanks for all the great information.
Ahh, aren't all their little cones gorgeous?! So awesome to see them all over the forest floor, shows you how prolific they are at reproducing!
Great!
HahHa so much fun. I look forward to learning and laughing more!
Welcome, stoked you're here!
Great video..some of my best Chantrelle mushroom picking spots are where lots of Hemlocks are growing.
Ahh thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Matsutakes too.
Awesome Video! I have been watching a new forest grow on the levee that they built right b4 I moved in, in Glacier WA. So, I'm learning to identify all the trees and weeds! THANKS! Great Video! Now I know what a Hemlock looks like! They planted 10K trees on this levee, mostly Douglass Fir, Cedar and Spruce (Ouch!), plus the deciduous Alder & Birch.. But in my yard I have hemlock and wanted to identify it. I didn't hear you say that the leaves are smaller than the firs, but that's my experience.
So The State Tree of Washington State is a Pine, or at least An Evergreen, Which is good do to the Fact that Washington is The Evergreen State.
I love your content and your subject matter but it's honestly very hard to follow you because you talk way too fast. I keep finding myself saying what did he say? What did he say? Rewinding. Just a tip 🤷
If of help, you change the play speed of a video via the gear/flower icon in the upper right. : )
Great video. You might want to lay off the 40 cups of coffee before you record a video 🙂
Are you a tree hugger? What do you think of petroleum? Is it evil?
Are you a bot? A troll? A soul-less internet lurker stirring the pot?
No. I’m sorry dude. I wasn’t trying to antagonize you per se. I did kind of want to know your thoughts on petroleum, but if it’s personal then you don’t have to share. I appreciate you sharing your wealth of knowledge on hemlocks