I'm from upstate NY and I'd never seen an oak or a locust or an osage orange until I went to forestry school in Syracuse and then moved to Pennsylvania.

American beech, yellow birch and sugar maple kept our houses warm and boiled our sap into maple sugar. All burn hot and make fine firewood.

"You cannot invade mainland America. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass"
~Admiral Yamamoto~

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. ~Thomas Jefferson~