Forest~Pro: Photo Gallery

Tamarack (Eastern Larch) - One of the only conifers to drop its needles; the needles turn brilliant yellow in the Fall.

Sugar Maples in the Fall

Mixed Deciduous and Conferous Bush in the Fall

Mature Poplar Trees in the Fall

Forest access road - with beautiful Fall colours

Maidenhair Fern

Tree Fungus - an essential part of nature's recycling program. Fungus breaks down decaying wood into food for itself and eventually contributes to the rich forest soil.

Milkweed Seed Pods - monarch butterflies lay their eggs on the underside of milkweed leaves.

Monarch butterfly on a milkweed plant in flower.

Wood Violets

Sheep-laurel is a native shrub found in eastern Canada in boggy areas. This plant contains a toxin that has poisoned cattle, goats, and sheep as well as humans. Poisoning rarely happens in the wild.

Spring Trilliums

Day Lily

Rock Face - Provides shelter for young trees and is home to a range of moss, lichen and grasses

Hard Maple - a sustainable source of income from your woodlot

Hard Maple - winter is the best time to have logs drawn from your woodlot. The frozen ground reduces the impact to sensitive soil.

Hard Maple - the wood is one of the most valuable hardwoods in Canada. It is used for furniture, veneer, cabinets, decorative woodwork, flooring and cutting surfaces.

Healthy Hardwood Forest after selective single tree harvest.

Healthy Sugar Maple. Single-tree harvest methods are used to create or maintain uneven-aged forest stands. If tapped in late winter each tap will yield an average of 10 gallons of sap per season, yielding about one quart of maple syrup.

A Red Pine Forest

Beaver or Black Lab? (Black Lab.)

Home Sweet Home! The Flying Squirrel feeds on fruit and nuts from trees such as the red and white oak, hickory and beech trees, and they also dine on insects, buds, mushrooms, fungi such as truffles, carrion, bird eggs and nestlings and flowers. Sometimes they use holes that have been made by woodpeckers or other animals. They tend to avoid areas of forest that have been recently harvested.

Song Sparrow

Cavity Tree - a forest home, and an abundant food source for many species

Another example of a tree being used by wildlife for shelter

Water Fowl - Female Mallard Duck

Black Bear Claw Marks on a Beech tree. Beech mast is palatable to a large variety of birds and mammals, including mice, squirrels, chipmunks, black bear, deer, foxes, ruffed grouse, ducks, and blue jays.

Forest water filter - rain passes through porous organic soil and percolates slowly to streams where it is gradually released as clear water. Forest streams are also home to all kinds of life: insects, frogs, birds, and small fish.

Great Grey Owl

Great Grey Owl - Winter

Immature Great Grey Owl

Forest Pond - a huge source of bio-diversity

Moose - at home in forest wetlands

Northern Hawk Owl

Specially Trained Guard Owl!?

Swans

Forest-pond Sunset

Northern Saw-whet Owl

Timber Wolf

Immature Swans

Gulls at Sunset

Great Blue Heron

Red Squirrel. We are all connected to and depend on our natural ecosystems. FOREST~PRO provides landowners assistance with improving and preserving their wildlife habitat.

Can you identify this bird?

Thanks to wildlife restoration programs, the wild turkey is abundant and thriving most of its original range in Southern Ontario with a population now estimated to be over 100,000. The wild turkey lives in hardwood and mixed conifer-hardwood forests with openings like fields, pastures, orchards and marshes.

Forest Access Trail

Tall deciduous and confer trees create a protective canopy for a wide range of plants and animals.

A healthy Red Pine - Norway Spruce Plantation managed by FOREST~PRO.

A healthy forest after harvesting

An example of an overstocked Red Pine Forest requiring selective harvest. Trees require room to grow to improve and maintain their health along with ecosystems. A forest ecosystem is a natural woodland unit consisting of all plants, animals and micro-organisms in that area functioning together with all of the non-living physical factors of the environment.

Managed Red Pine Forest with abundant healthy Sugar Maple regeneration. If your forest is one that has been neglected over the years and has trees of harvestable size, an improvement harvest by FOREST~PRO may be in order. This type of harvest removes trees that are damaged, diseased or of poor quality to make room for more vigorous trees of better quality, species, or value.

Red Pine Forest Ready for Selective Thinning

White Pine Sapling

Young White Pine Grove

Mature Pine Forest (and sore neck)

Pine Forest in Winter

FOREST~PRO has experience of planting over 35 million seedlings, if you are considering planting trees, contact us for assistance.

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