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If Trees Could Talk LbNA #43125

Owner:TJ_Mich
Plant date:Aug 31, 2008
Location:
City:Mequon
County:Ozaukee
State:Wisconsin
Boxes:1
Found by: Guinea Pigs
Last found:Nov 29, 2020
Status:FFFFFFFFOF
Last edited:Oct 7, 2019
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"If Trees Could Talk" was, many years ago, the title of a brochure to guide your walk through this area. It’s been unavailable for a long time, though a few of the numbered markers remain. However, the name is still appropriate. Now certain trees can “talk” even more directly to you, via some small educational markers on them (which our Scout group had the pleasure to help install on a service workday a while back).

Head down the red rock path and enter the trees, where a plaque commemorates the dedication of this wheelchair-accessible nature trail.

Continue down the trail past White Ash, then post 2, and over a small bridge. Head straight across a clearing enjoying the oak opening to your right. Learn about snag trees, Red Oaks, White Oaks, and Ironwood. You can rest with Georgia at an unnumbered post, then continue past another one, then right on blue.

Stop when you reach a valuable fallen log to observe these massive fallen trunks. Now do an about-face and see the rest of the trunk pointing at 60 degrees. Take a roundabout route and look inside it, where the upper of its two Y’s reaches the ground.

After stamping in, continue ahead on the trail, past Beech. You can go right to complete the circuit, passing some old farm equipment as you return to the oak opening. Or you go left over a bridge, and eventually exit the woods on a different, less-wheelchair-accessible path.


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