Urban Naturalists at Nathan Bishop Middle School: Let's ID Some Trees!!!

On Wednesday, storms were predicted so we decided to explore trees around the school instead of venture to the park. Jacqui, our trained Arborist, led us around the neighborhood and taught us about what types of trees are planted in the area.

We loved the color of this tree

Some of the leaves were mid-color change

Matthew was checking out the trees
ahead of us

Such pretty trees in the neighborhood!

Jacqui showed us the features of the tree
that help us ID the species

Some of these trees were beautiful! Many
were located on the lawns of the owners

We loved the red color of this tree!

Jacqui talked about how important is was to have supports for a growing
tree, but how it is equally important to remove them so they don't
end up choking the tree!

We then found this VERY interesting tree
growing with the fence INSIDE it!

We were amazed by how this tree could grow
with the fence heavily embedded inside it

Esteban checks out the tree/fence situation

We discovered that an invasive species
was actually choking out the native tree!
Darn you Tree of Heaven!

Check out how the fence is deep into the tree.
The tree encountered the fence and tried
to grow around it

An up-close view of the fence embedded
into the tree

Here, a tree was growing up the fence
like a vine

One Urban Naturalist noticed holes in this
tree. Any guesses as what could have
caused this???

These spikes were caused by the the shoes worn by
at someone who's job is to check the powerlines!
They climb up the trees with spiked shoes and left
wounds in the tree. Not cool!