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Get Outdoors: Learn to ID native Minnesota trees, shrubs in winter Editor’s note: Some events may have been canceled after the time of publication. Please check with local organizers. Written By: News Tribune | × Winter Outdoor Skills: 7-8 p.m. Feb. 1, online. Part of the University of Minnesota Extension's monthly 4-H outdoor adventure series. For K-13. Free. Registration required; visit http://bit.ly/38ZYLKX or email Nicole Pokorney, 4-H youth development educator, at pokorney@umn.edu. Get Outdoors: Winter Tree and Shrub Identification: 7-8 p.m. Feb. 2, via Zoom. Learn tri...

0:44 The University of Illinois Extension wants you to know your trees. They are offering a winter tree identification webinar series. Christopher Evans is a forestry and research specialist with the Extension and he is teaching the class. He said the classes are free and "totally open to anyone." "As long as they're interested in learning about trees and willing to listen to me talk for an hour, they are welcome to take it," he said. "There is no age limit." Evans said identifying trees in the summer is a "wonderful first step" but added that trees spend about half the year without leaves.

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...

Take a Winter Walk in Ulster County to Learn How to ID Trees Next Tuesday (January 12, 2021) the weather looks like a perfect day for a winter walk through the woods. If you are looking to spend an hour outdoors learning about the trees that make-up our Hudson Valley forests then you can't miss the Winter Tree ID walk at the Mohonk Preserve. Yes, I am an avid tree lover, some might even say tree hugger which is why I would find this walk so fascinating. Everyone ages 8 to 88 are invite to come enjoy a guided tour through the woods to learn how to identify our local trees when their leave are ...

Tree expert Vern Rist, right, led a Winter Tree ID and Ecology Walk Saturday morning, Dec. 19, 2020 at the Catskill Center's Thorn Preserve in Woodstock with retired ecology professor Peter Koch, third from left. Several people used snow shoes or cross country skis, as well as hiking to get around the 60-acre preserve where participants studied how to distinguish different trees from others, the impact of diseases and measures being taken to protect them, to name a few. The preserve, which is operated in partnership with the Catskill Center and the Woodstock Land Conservancy, is located at 55...