That glorious sound is not as close to the house as it once was, not as vibrant. It emanates from branches farther away, from trees closer to the forest. The birds that once called the old maple home ...
Weather is the other big determinant. A wet spring can create the right conditions for the blooming of many oak flowers, known as catkins and coons, a good sign of higher acorn numbers. On the ...
Trees can respond fairly quickly to these changes ... In a paper published in 2021, they reported that different plant species here responded differently when exposed to rising seas and repeated ...