Georgia: Hall County: Oakwood: GSC Campus: Trails
A
South Entrance//mostly cloudy with slight wind//cultivated landscape area
B
South Trail Entrance//edge of forest
poison ivy
known for groups of three leaves
virginia creeper
C
South Trail//'Pine plot'
lat: 34.23948
lon: 83.86378
Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda)
-long-leaf pines are uncommon this far north (?)
D
-[Oak ?] [Quercus SPECIES]
leaves sprout from alternating buds on twigs (rather than opposite)
-dominant in immediate vicinity
-suppressed: not a large amount of sunlight on sides, most on top
"There's another loblolly on the ground. They're all destined to be there. Aren't we all?" (paraphrased)
Next, we established a plot-less site, with a point-centered quarter method. In a (mostly) straight line, we placed Yellow Flags @ 10m intervals.
0m Flag @ (lat: 34.23971, lon: 83.86378).
60m Flag @ (lat: 34.23928, lon: 83.86387), adjusting slightly for bike trail.
water oak: fire-resistant leaves (?), rounded lobes (bullets)
red oak: pointed lobes (arrow-points)
0m: pine/hardwood transition
*Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina)under leaves
*harvestman
American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua)
E
lots of foliage, low-quality nuts
-adolescents carve into bark, where scars remain
[ABBREVIATIONS]
[less than 2.5=not a tree, less than 24]
'apical dominance' density/dominance
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