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WALKING IN NATURE

We went for a 45 minute walk around a lake. The whole trail was dry. The trail was made up of gravel and some wood chips. On our walk we saw lots of White Birch Trees.

TYPES OF BIRCH TREES

There are 52 different types of birch trees. These are some of the other native birch trees north America.

swamp birch

gray birch

paper birch

water birch

river birch or black birch

sweet birch, cherry birch, or black birch

American dwarf birch

mountain paper birch

yellow birch

USES FOR BIRCH TREES

There are lots of uses for birch trees. One of the uses for birch trees are that make paper out of birch trees. Another use is for medicine because in the bark of the tree birch bud in folk medicine.

WHY BIRCH TREES GROW UP NORTH BUT NOT HERE The paper birch is the white birch of the U.S.A. I always

see a lot of birch trees when we go up north but not around here because they are very hard to take care of and they are weak trees. They are also very vulnerable to bugs and disease.

YELLOW MUSHROOMS Another thing I saw that was cool where these yellow

mushrooms. Their real name is Fly Agaric Mushroom. Fly Agaric fungi got their name from the custom of placing little pieces of the mushroom in milk to attract flies.