The beauty of Door County’s landscape owes thanks to the variety of trees growing here. Many are native, while others have ...

Fagus grandiflora, our native tree, is grand and majestic with ... Most avid outdoorsmen can identify a beech by its smooth bark. This strikes me while sitting across the widest part of the ...

Identified by their easily dislodged bark and tulip-shaped fruits ... Not surprisingly, the smooth-barked beech trees were marred by mostly old wounds caused by people carving names or love ...

By beech trees, she means copper beeches (Fagus sylvatica), the type that grows in groves, very tall with smooth bark and straight trunks. The hornbeam, the US variety of which is sometimes called ...