Red Maple – Hardwood Climb completed July 16, 2026Red Maple and clean water. The state tree of Rhode Island. My 15th tree on my quest to climb the 50 state trees of the USA took me to the Big River Management Area in Rhode Island. The […]
The White Oak – Hardwood July 15, 2026 Quaddick State Park. Connecticut: where American independence began with a tree. The legend of the Charter Oak is Connecticut’s most famous political folktale. It tells the story of how Captain Joseph Wadsworth supposedly hid Connecticut’s Royal Charter inside […]
Paper Birch – Hardwood Climbed July 14, 2026 Women in forestry! My travels to the forests of New Hampshire connected me with Lindsay Watkins to find a Paper Birch (aka White Birch), Betula papyrifera, the state tree of New Hampshire. Lindsay is the Strafford County Forester […]
White Pine – Softwood July 14, 2026 near Old Orchard Maine Maine: the most heavily forested state in the U.S. Over 89% of Maine’s land is covered by forests. About 90% of this land is privately owned, featuring the largest contiguous area of privately owned forest […]
Sugar Maple – Hardwood July 13, 2026 Vermont. Healthy forests. Awesome mountains. Vermont’s forests provide essential ecological, social, and economic benefits: clean water, wildlife habitat, carbon storage, recreation, and forest products from firewood to lumber. Today I climbed a Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) on the mountain […]
American Elm – Hardwood July 12, 2026 (my 50th birthday) The heck with candles, I want 50 trees! Today is my 50th birthday and I am spending it traveling through New England to climb the state tree of each state in the Northeast. Last year I […]
The Sugar Maple – Hardwood Almost Heaven, Sugar Maple!Oct 5, 2025 (Little Falls WV) On Oct 5th, I climbed a Sugar Maple tree in Little Falls, West Virginia. The state tree here is the Sugar Maple. There are several species of Maple native to this state. […]
Tulip Poplar – Hardwood Oct 3, 2025 (near Johnson City TN) Today I visited East Tennessee to climb the state tree, the Tulip Poplar. #8 on my quest to climb each of the U.S. state trees The tulip poplar, also known as the tulip tree, yellow […]
Sugar Maple – Hardwood Did you ever get to hear Jimi Hendrix play the Star Spangled Banner? THIS Sugar Maple did! New York. The Empire State. August 9, 2025 The state tree of New York is the Sugar Maple. I’ve traveled to many parts of New […]
The Palmetto Tree – Monocot Climbed June 25, 2025Hilton Head SCTree # 6/50 I’ve quietly begun a personal quest to visit specimens of every state tree in the USA to promote our nation’s forests. I recently spent some time exploring the Sea Pines Forest Preserve in […]
The Flowering Dogwood – Hardwood April 13, 2025 Shenandoah Valley of VA Tree #5/50 The Flowering Dogwood is the state tree of Virginia. I visited the state in mid April when these beautiful flowers were blooming. I travelled down the Shenandoah Valley taking in the scenery […]
Pine Tree – Softwood April 12, 2025 Troy North Carolina Tree #4/50 “The Pine Tree”…How’s that for a state tree? I love it! The state tree of North Carolina is simply “the pine tree”. This is extremely fitting because the legacy of North Carolina […]
Sabal Palm – Monocot Feb 16, 2025 Key West Florida Tree #3/50Next stop, Cuba! The tree I found at the southernmost point in the continental United States was a Palm Tree. The sabal palm (Sabal palmetto) is the most widely distributed palm in Florida. I found […]
White Oak – Hardwood May 19, 2024 Maryland Tree #2/50 The state tree of Maryland is White Oak. White Oak are very important trees. For wildlife, they make a nutritious seed (acorn). These are consumed by Turkey, deer, bear and more. White Oak acorns are the […]
Eastern Hemlock – Softwood April 7, 2024 Clinton County PA Tree #1/50 There are only a handful of old growth forests on the East Coast of the US. Yesterday my sons and I made a return visit to our personal favorite; Duttlinger Natural Area. It is […]
