More on the tree inventory at Pleasant Valley Conservancy

I finally found time to put together a summary of the tree database we finished a few weeks ago. Thanks again to Heisley and (especially) Amanda for their hard winter work on this. Trudging around in deep snow is not the best way to train for a Marathon.

The ArcMap software has lots of capabilities, and one is its ability to put together quickly and accurately a complete count of all categories of trees. (You could do this in Excel but it would probably take an hour.)

As the table shows, we have over 4000 trees, although some of them are present in only small numbers. The principal species are bur oak, white oak, red oak, and black oak, with lesser numbers of birch, cherry, hickory, Hill's oak, basswood, and black walnut.

I should emphasize that these counts are what is there at present, after more than ten years of restoration. When we started, the percentage of oaks was a lot lower.

Common name	Latin name	Count
Aspen	Populus tremuloides	11
Basswood	Tilia Americana	131
Birch	Betula papyrifera	408
Black Oak	Quercus velutina	545
Black Walnut	Juglans nigra	117
Box Elder	Acer negundo	2
Bur Oak	Quercus macrocarpa	714
Cedar	Juniperus virginiana	12
Cherry	Prunus serotina	240
Elm	Ulmus rubra	7
Hackberry	Celitis occidentalis	62
Hickory; shag bark	Carya ovata	211
Hills Oak	Quercus ellipsoidalis	147
Red Maple	Acer rubrum	5
Red Oak	Quercus rubra	824
Red Pine	Pinus resinosa	1
Sugar Maple	Acer saccharum	2
Unidentified		4
White Oak	Quercus alba	619
White Pine	Pinus strobes	1
Yellow Bud Hickory	Carya cordiformis	4
Total trees		4067