Forestry ID

[PacificGoldenPlover]

Usually, I feel that shagbark appears bigger than pignut, but there is a lot of overlap.

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[Wadhk]

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Balsam Fir?

[PacificGoldenPlover]

Close, not quite

[Wadhk]

Subalpine Fir?

[PacificGoldenPlover]

Correct, how did you know?

[Wadhk]

Correct, how did you know?

The needles looked really short (on the nationals list, only balsam fir and subalpine fir have needles <1 in, the other 2 firs have needles twice as long) so if it isn't balsam fir, then its subalpine fir

[PacificGoldenPlover]

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Black Hawthorn?

[Wadhk]

Yup! Any suggestions on how to tell black hawthorn and frosted hawthorn apart?

[JSGandora]

I always thought frosted hawthorn had deeper lobes

[PacificGoldenPlover]

I don't see much of that on online pictures but that's just me.

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