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Any online tutorials, YouTube videos, college courses, or books ect. ya'll recommend for learning trees, scrubs, grasses, forbes and invasive species .
I'm in lower AlabamaThere is an excellent book entitled "Weeds of the Northeast", but it may not fully apply base on the reader's location. Try to find resources that are specific to where you need to identify stuff. Weeds of the Northeast probably won't be as useful to a person in Arizona. But there are species of flora that is widespread so learning is never a bad thing.
There are some apps which help identify plants based on your photos of a particular leaf, fruit, flower, bark characteristics, etc. I have PlantNet on my phone. It's okay, but I've noticed that it's sometimes only 50% accurate.
There's a guy over on Habitat Talk that goes by Native Hunter. This guy is self educated and he is absolutely amazing in his knowledge of plants. You can always reach out to him on that forum with your photos. He's very eager to help.
Download the app "Picture This" onto your phone either in the App store or Google play. I got it last spring and it is absolutely awesome. I know my trees pretty well from my Dad and helping manage timber and doing firewood but this thing has a wealth of great information and it makes it super handy on your phone when you're scouting.Any online tutorials, YouTube videos, college courses, or books ect. ya'll recommend for learning trees, scrubs, grasses, forbes and invasive species .
Might want to follow @nativehabitatproject on the gram if you dont already.I
I'm in lower Alabama
I have that thanksDownload the app "Picture This" onto your phone either in the App store or Google play. I got it last spring and it is absolutely awesome. I know my trees pretty well from my Dad and helping manage timber and doing firewood but this thing has a wealth of great information and it makes it super handy on your phone when you're scouting.
Check local colleges for dendrology / silviculture / forestry programs. The campus bookstore will probably have some used textbooks and field guides in a few months. Might be more in-depth than you're looking for but worth checking out.I found a manual for the VA forestry service in a used book store in my town. There were actually quite a few tree/horticulture books there. Might be worth checking a used bookstore, if you have one nearby
This is a great idea! ThanksCheck local colleges for dendrology / silviculture / forestry programs. The campus bookstore will probably have some used textbooks and field guides in a few months. Might be more in-depth than you're looking for but worth checking out.
I watched some of his videos. They were good and informative. Not the most exciting to watch but worth it.Though not exactly what you might be looking for this video series is very interesting and deals with reading a forest's history. There were quite a few things I picked up from the series that I did not know before and now when I am in the woods, I see these signs everywhere. I can't remember where or how I found this series.
(229) Tom Wessels: Reading the Forested Landscape, Part 1 - YouTube