White Birch (Populus alba)

This is a hillside between two hayfields with many hardwood oaks and maples as well as ash and these white birch.

White birch has a fascinating history with the human race, Native Americans, nomadic herders in Scandanavia and tribes in the Amur region of Russia have used the bark from different variaties of white birch for thousands of years to build bowls, baskets, canoes and have used it as paper and also fire starter!!