Identify trees in winter
Emily Steele, Media Communications Coordinator University of Illinois Extension GALESBURG — Knowing your trees is an important skill to have when managing a forest. The most common way to identify trees is their leaves, but trees spend almost half the year leafless. University of Illinois Extension is offering the free three-part webinar series Winter Tree Identification starting February 1. Forester Chris Evans will teach the basic characteristics that are used to identify trees in winter - location, bark, twigs, buds. He will also cover in detail how to ID common and uncommon Illinois t...