TRR photo by Sandy Long

Tree talk: beavers, burls and more

Though quite durable, trees suffer a variety of impacts. Some result in irreparable harm, such as the damage inflicted by beavers when their harvest is successful. Others are toppled during storms or ravaged by rising waters along riverbanks. Trees can also recover from injuries, healing human carvings in bark, and developing dramatic protrusions, known as burls, from stresses such as fungal invasion or insects.

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Conservation district offers discount trees and shrubs

SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY—The Sullivan County Soil & Water Conservation District will accept orders for its annual spring Tree & Shrub Program until Friday, April 3. The district offers a wide variety of deciduous and conifer species at reduced costs to promote conservation plantings.

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The fungus among us

LIBERTY, NY—There will be a workshop on mushrooms led by Peter Podaras on Sunday, March 22 at 1:00 p.m. at the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Sullivan County at 64 Ferndale-Loomis Road. The topic will be how to grow shiitake mushrooms using oak logs. The hands-on workshop will cover selecting the correct woodspecies for different types of mushrooms, how to inoculate a log and care of the logs to produce a mushroom crop.

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Also in this issue:

• Maple weekends at Frost Valley