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FLORAL SIGNS OF SPRING: 2025

#8: 25 March thru 8 April 2025

Back in December 2023 when we first visited the 35-acre tract that is now Hilton Pond North we were enthralled by the density and diversity of mature trees that grew across its slopes (above). We could identify from bark many towering oaks—Chestnut, White, and Northern Red—nearly equalled in age and size by Wild Cherry, Black Birch, American Beech, Tulip Tree, and Eastern White Pine, and even a few canopy-level, sun-loving Black Locust that survived years of fungal rot, infestations by leaf miner insects, and competition within a changing forest that shaded them out.