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What must you see to ID a tree? And what must you see during the winter, when a thick cover of snow sits atop leaf beds. That is what Bill Michaelek, manager and naturalist at Beaver Meadow Audubon ...

Squirrels, insects and lightning strikes may be the reason for dead tree branches. Pruning the dead branch will solve the problem in most cases. This has been a long, hot, wet summer and soon fall ...