Western Hemlock - How to Identify Them! || Nerdy About Nature Tree Guide

Ouf, Western Hemlocks are absolute stunners out here in the temperate forests of Cascadia! With their cool twisting roots, trunks and crowns, their flowing feathery limbs full of mismatched needles of different sizes and shapes, then sprinkled with the cutest cones you'll ever see...gah, what beauties! Extremely shade tolerant and resilient, these trees are often second generational successors in healthy forest ecosystems, coming up in the shadows of their predecessors and often growing on their woody debris. While many people tend to refer to Hemlocks as 'weed trees', these are my absolute favorite conifers here in the Pacific Northwest for so many reasons that I can't even begin to get into, it's endless. I feel like I may need to do a whole follow-up episode purely on why I love them so much, but that blurs the line between a 'Tree ID Guide' and 'Ross just geeking out on metaphors and nature'! In this video, I reference another good one on Nurse Logs, which you can check out here:    • Nurse Logs - What the heck are they anyway...   Like this vid? Help support Nerdy About Nature to make more engaging videos like this possible! || SUPPORT THESE VIDEOS :   / nerdyaboutnature   Follow along for more engaging fun-facts to make your next jaunt into the outdoors more rad! || SUBSCRIBE : http://www.youtube.com/NerdyAboutNatu... || IG :   / nerdyaboutnature   || FB :   / nerdyaboutnature   || http://www.NerdyAboutNature.com __________________________________________________ Big thanks to ecologyst for helping make this episode come together! They make some really rad, ethical clothes from natural materials locally here in Canada; perfect for getting out an exploring the world around us! Check them out at https://ecologyst.com/ __________________________________________________ Produced & Directed by Ross Reid ~ I'd like to acknowledge that this video was filmed on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations. ~ __________________________________________________ References: 'Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast' by Jim Pojar & Andy MacKinnon. Published by BC Ministry of Forests & Long Pine Publishing, Vancouver BC. 1994 'Northwest Trees: identifying & Understanding the Regions Native Trees' by Stephen F. Arno & Ramona P. Hammerly. Published by The Mountainers, Seattle, WA .1977