Why You Should Be Able to Identify Trees in Winter

[hawgrider]

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If you want to be a “survival” person, you have to be a plant person. The ability to identify herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs and trees (with and without their leaves) will give you many advantages in the realm of survival. These are just three of the things that winter tree identification will provide for you.

Finding Food
If you can learn to spot oak or beech trees,
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[Arklatex]

Never knew you could tap a sycamore or black walnut and drink the sap like water. Good to know.

[hawgrider]

Never knew you could tap a sycamore or black walnut and drink the sap like water. Good to know.Handy Tib bits..

The Rubberduck has a very cool assortment of hardwoods on his Huntin land.

[Baglady]

About 1/2 a mile from us is a huge grove of Bamboo. According to the "Survival Duo", they hold water in between the sections, and you don't have to filter it. I need to check that out sometime.
Birch bark is a really good fire starter.
So is dry Bamboo. Goes off like fire crackers!!