Join Volunteer Naturalist, Joe Rogers as he talks about some of Kentucky’s fantastic native trees. All species can be found here at Bernheim.
The Hidden Beauty of the Sassafras
Sassafras is a beautiful tree that is often overlooked in the forest. With winter quickly approaching, colors begin to fade within the forest. Sassafras offers beautiful green twigs, red furrowed […]
Trails from the Bent Twig Trail: The Cycle Continues
They’re back! The spicebush butterflies have been laying their eggs on the spicebush, Lindera benzoin and sassafras trees Sassafras albidum on the Bent Twig Trail and elsewhere. Some of those eggs have […]
Tales from the Bent Twig Trail: Learning to See
Learning to see involves knowing how and where to look. It requires developing a mental template, or the term I prefer, a searching image. I started to understand this concept […]
Tales from the Bent Twig Trail
Say the title of this blog three times and see if you don’t end up sounding like Tweety Bird! All joking aside, the Bent Twig Loop winds through a […]