Field Notes Friday: Identifying Pine trees

This Friday we're flashing back to March 2022 with Jason Berard, VP of Stewardship, when he visited Bear Pond Natural Area and identified three kinds of pines in our area - white, red, and scotch. Jason shows us how to tell the difference between these three pines by observing their needles and bark.
As mentioned in the video, Scotch Pine is an invasive tree that isn't much talked about in the conversation around invasive plants. It is a European species brought here by the British and used extensively in landscaping, forestry planting, and as a Christmas tree.