51�Թ�

At 11 a.m., the forest ecologist Howard Goldstein will introduce sites including the Lullwater Cove and the Butterfly Meadow, and species like the Northern red oak, red maple and sweet birch.

If you live high in the Appalachians or in northern latitudes, you could turn to a few native species of birch, the gray birch, the sweet birch and the yellow birch.

Refreshing scents include a mix of peppermint, rosemary and sweet birch; or tea tree and lavender and sandalwood.

He pulled over next to a sweet birch tree, and looked at its pale green leaves, ringed with dry brown.

And throughout the region, from April to November, enthusiasts are on the prowl for black morels, wild ginger, elderberries, sweet birch twigs and more.