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Re: Forestry B/C
Posted: May 20th, 2013, 5:43 pm
by waywardwind12
silverheart7 wrote:At Wright State, I got a sample of an Ailanthus (Tree of Heaven), and I was thrilled. I'm a bit of a forestry nerd, since it's my dream career
If anyone else went on the nature tour,you should have said hi to me
I was the Asian girl from Gelinas with long, dark hair. I got a few really nice specimens of different trees, but then my forestry partner murdered them (or something). I asked him to hold onto them over night. I assumed he knew to press them or at leat keep them moist so they wouldn't wilt, but they were 100% dead the next morning... Oh well
Oh wow my partner and I did the exact same with the leaf collection and pressing! XD. Where'd you find the Ailanthus? I just want to find out just how much they smell
By any chance did you go around the creek? We went there and saw so many different trees including my favorite eastern oak, the chinkapin!
@Fuel Thanks so much! I am so honored to have won and I hope I'll get to be one of the testwriters next time the event comes around
Also, I think the tree you're talking about is the sassafras? They gave an unlobed leaf and it was kind of oblovate
Re: Forestry B/C
Posted: May 20th, 2013, 6:04 pm
by silverheart7
@wayward Congratulations! It was near the entrance to the nature preserve/trail. A pretty high branch, I wouldn't have seen/gotten it if the tour guide didn't point it out and my partner wasn't taller than I was. It is sort of a subtle penut butter smell, but it's definetely detectable. I was so excited to see an actual sample, that I was disappointed when a) my partner murdered it and b) it wasn't on the test
Re: Forestry B/C
Posted: May 20th, 2013, 6:09 pm
by FueL
waywardwind12 wrote:@Fuel Thanks so much! I am so honored to have won and I hope I'll get to be one of the testwriters next time the event comes around
Also, I think the tree you're talking about is the sassafras? They gave an unlobed leaf and it was kind of oblovate
ohh, that makes a lot of sense. just out of curiosity, not that it matters, what field guides did you guys use?
haha my partner and I went to the botanical gardens in NYC and might have taken a couple samples from there
we stored a lot of them in our sibley for the day and now the pages have a nice tree smell to them.
Re: Forestry B/C
Posted: May 20th, 2013, 6:18 pm
by zerasaw
Yeah, I really hate when people disrespect your specimens. I have a whole book (a photo album) full of smallish leaves, and one day my brother tried to take it. I made sure that he learned his lesson.
Re: Forestry B/C
Posted: May 21st, 2013, 3:36 pm
by waywardwind12
@Fuel I used Sibley and National Wildlife Federation, both excellent guides
Re: Forestry B/C
Posted: May 21st, 2013, 4:17 pm
by caseyotis
waywardwind12 wrote:@Fuel I used Sibley and National Wildlife Federation, both excellent guides
Don't leave out the Audubon guide! Of the three, it's really just personal preference.
Re: Forestry B/C
Posted: June 2nd, 2013, 9:17 pm
by Barker
For anyone who will be missing Forestry next year, I would highly reccomend reading "The Wild Trees" by Richard Preston, it is really cool and trey
Re: Forestry B/C
Posted: July 14th, 2013, 7:53 pm
by Wanttoget1st
If anyone is still on this...I couldn't find an entomology forum, so I'll just post my question here:
Do we have to know every single species from each of of the 29 insect orders?? (i.e. protura, collembola, diptura,---of course, those are orders--- etc.)
Thanks if anyone can answer!!
Re: Forestry B/C
Posted: July 14th, 2013, 8:06 pm
by silverheart7
Most likely, there will be an official list of the insects we need to study... With that said, I wasn't around for the last rotation, so I wouldn't know.
Re: Forestry B/C
Posted: July 15th, 2013, 4:10 am
by caseyotis
Wanttoget1st wrote:If anyone is still on this...I couldn't find an entomology forum, so I'll just post my question here:
Do we have to know every single species from each of of the 29 insect orders?? (i.e. protura, collembola, diptura,---of course, those are orders--- etc.)
Thanks if anyone can answer!!
Bwahahaha, species? pigeon no. Genera, maybe. That's just my guess, though. There are way too many species to do in an event. xD