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Stop 6 Foresters Trail

Looking up the stem of a hardwood tree. The bark is brown with flat plats that have a whitish-tinge. stem has holes in it In the background there are a lot of trees with green leafy crowns.

At this stop, you are near a  den tree, also called a snag. These trees have broken tops or are dead but still standing. They provide cover for a variety of wildlife species, perches for predatory birds such as hawks, sources of insects for woodpeckers, a place for nesting and food storage, and recycle nutrients back to the soil as they decay. Without snags, an important component of wildlife habitat would be lost. 

Stop 7