I am at Springwater, this is Villa Creek Trail and I was just observing all the trees in here, mostly pine trees. I get fined a few balesome far as well but mostly it's fine. Maybe if I go down the creek near the creek I might find some hemlock because hemlock trees like to have their feet wet. This is part of the Simco County Forests. So I am thinking these pines might be about 40 to 60 year old pine. These were reforested so it's not old growth. These were reforested somewhere in the mid 1900s. This tree right here is a hemlock. So how I know that is stick a closer look at the leaves. So if you see the top part of the leaves are green, dark green and the bottom is light green. And then hemlocks have alternate branching unlike balesome fur which is opposite branching. You see these are not joined. Hemlocks too like to have their feet wet. So I can see that there's a little bit of depression here and the roots are actually out which means it might have grown on the trunk of another tree and usually you will also find hemlocks in hemlock stands in groups. This is a pine needle. So you can see that pine needles originate in groups from one point like this one and it will be usually groups of two or five. This is in two. I think two means it is white pine but it might be wrong. This is a oak tree and oak trees don't, although their leaves are dry. They don't like to lose their leaves and it usually has kind of a skeleton like structure. Alternate branching for sure like most hardwoods are. And the bark is a bit fissured but this is a longish kind of bark. Very interesting acorns. This is a spruce tree. These spruce needles are not flat. These are more rounded shaped and they have pointed end. This is another spruce tree. It's a very young one. Maybe a year or two old and how you identify the tree is from the needles. The needles are pointed and they are not flat needles like that of hemlock or fur but these have rounded cross section and spruce needles to make wonderful tea. Very rich and vitamin C. I am going to break off some and take home to make some tea. In this woods primarily of pine trees I find a lone birch tree. It's a paper birch and you can identify a birch tree by the distinct white bark that it has and this has these horizontal marks that actually help take in carbon dioxide and moisture. And this bark has a lot of oil in it. It burns by kerosene. The one birch in a thick pine stand. I have my ice creeps on so I don't slip on the ice. It's about to get dark so it's good that I've finished my hike before it got really dark. That's all for today. Thanks for watching and if you liked what you saw please don't forget to subscribe.