Neighbor text me these today. He is going to limb and skid them over to my property. Best score yet. He is supposed to drop 4 more of these.
I will hook him up with a keg or something. He hates beech trees during hunting season, and he knows I burn a ton of wood. Win win kinda deal!
Why does your neighbor hate beech during the hunting season? Is the beech good burning? Is it easy enough to split? Ive never burned it. Im just full of questions tonight.
Beech is one of the best firewood out there. It splits pretty easily, typically, but sometimes can get a swirl to the grain, making odd splits. Why would he hate it during the hunting season? Does he need to learn to shoot better?
My woods and my woodpile are full of beech. I can tell you why it's hated during hunting season (and why it should be loved). American Beech has a tendency to hold its' leaves until springtime. I have many young beech trees in the woods that still have dry dead leaves fluttering on the branches. Plus the growth habit of beech allows for nearly horizontal branches, low to the ground. All of this adds up to a tree that is nearly impossible to see or shoot through during the hunting season. Of course, the beech nuts ("mast") are attracting all kinds of wildlife. The deer frequently graze around the beech and oaks on the ridge east of my house.
To me, this is the reason I NEVER cut beech trees. Look around, how many do you see? In my area, not too many left that are mature and if they are they are dying.
I wish I had beech trees. Their mast is great feed for wildlife. I once read it takes 40 years of growth before they produce...
Neighbors helping neighbors....that's what it's all about! I am not a fan of Beech in my woods. I sometimes go out of my way to kill saplings. It's not for the hunting aspect though. Beech is a climax tree. I prefer my stands stay in Oak/Hickory 2nd succession. They are great for wildlife, but I don't care for them. Danged branches 20' long invading my trails too.
Beech-maple forest - Wikipedia There are different successions in a forest. A climax tree is a variety that means the forest is reaching full succession of species. Conifers locust and aspens would be pioneer species (1st succession), Oaks and Hickory will then move in as the pioneers die off (2nd succession), then you have the third stage where the maples and beech take over (third succession or climax). There's much more to it, but you'll need a silvaculturist to do a better job of explaining. It's the life cycles of woodlands. Certain species dominate during certain cycles.
Sounds like "generational" adaptation to me. Darwin never truly said " fittest of the species" but what he and others after him drew conclusions was that as environment changes species have better abilities than others. Gives way to trees that are best suited for an environment that changes because of climate. So case in point, is this basically to describe how forest areas live and die by the types of trees that grow in a certain timeline? Sort of like farmland to grow crops, then becomes thinned out because of nutrient depletion or in this case "food" as a scientific representation of a "group" in a "setting"? Some trees are represented best here as a plant that thrives in low nutrient environments...
