Yesterday I went hiking in the woods. I wanted to document the dominant species that grow naturally in Nebraska, currently. I hiked in Mandan Park, which is adjacent to Fontenelle Forest, and Hummel Park, northeast of the city. I recorded trees over 8 inches in diameter as I walked. Hackberry dominated the hillsides. Occasionally I walked through stands dominated by Red Oak, Shagbark Hickory, Linden or Black Walnut. In these old growth forests there were several Linden trees that had sprouted up around an old parent stump. One clump of Lindens had new sprouts growing in the meddle of the clump of old second generation trees showing them to be at least the third generation of trees growing from the same root system.
Yesterday, 11/30/21, Graham Herbst led me through the website that has the tree inventories for many of the cities in Nebraska. He said he could get me the top 10 species for any city. So I just sent him a request for thirteen cities spread throughout the state. I spent time going through Chardon's inventory. It caused me to add six species to the list I will send out for people to rank. From my reading Chardon has 2,421 trees in Parks and undeveloped land such as cemeteries, 2,398 trees along streets and 159 in 'not stated' locations. The top three species are Hackberry, Honeylocust, and Juniper (mostly Redcedar). There was a total of more that 67 species. My count of 67 lumped together several of the oaks, apples, and other varieties.
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