{"id":731,"date":"2010-12-31T13:37:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T20:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/?p=731"},"modified":"2011-07-14T23:25:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T05:25:13","slug":"pic-of-the-day-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/2010\/12\/31\/pic-of-the-day-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Balsam Poplar at Beaverhill Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m taking one university class this winter, and I’m getting pretty excited about it. After getting half way through a design degree I’m switching gears completely and taking “Wildlife Biodiversity and Ecology”. Should be very interesting in a completely different way. This is possibly an explanation for my renewed interest in correctly naming trees and animals in my posts. I’d love to know all this stuff thoroughly. <\/p>\n

I grew up differentiating poplars between white poplars (what I now know is trembling aspen – white poplar is actually a completely different tree from Europe) and black poplars (a kind of balsam poplar). Not sure if these were local names from Saskatchewan or mistakes. Anyway, these are a kind of balsam poplar near Beaverhill Lake. Not sure if they’re Ontario Balsam Poplar (Populus balsamifera) or Black Cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa). <\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m taking one university class this winter, and I’m getting pretty excited about it. After getting half way through a design degree I’m switching gears completely and taking “Wildlife Biodiversity and Ecology”. Should be very interesting in a completely different way. This is possibly an explanation for my renewed interest in correctly naming trees and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,87],"tags":[161,135,326,958,954,956,106,957,959,192,142,961,951,960,952,571,162,950,955,953],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forest-2","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-aspen","tag-balsam-poplar","tag-beaverhill-lake","tag-black-cottonwood","tag-black-poplars","tag-different-tree","tag-flora-and-fauna","tag-local-names","tag-plantae","tag-poplar","tag-populus","tag-populus-alba","tag-populus-balsamifera","tag-populus-tremula","tag-populus-trichocarpa","tag-taxonomy","tag-trees","tag-university-class","tag-white-poplar","tag-white-poplars"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t