Vermont Hardwood Trees

The northern hardwood mix of beech birch and maple dominates vermont s forests accounting for 71 of the forest cover.

Vermont hardwood trees.

The dominant forest type in vermont called the hemlock northern hardwoods. We are fortunate to be based in vermont home to a tremendous variety of hardwood species. Wednesday i drove to the robert frost stone house museum in shaftsbury vermont about 100 miles south at the southwest corner of the state. The three most common hardwoods here are sugar maple beech and yellow birch.

In vermont there are more than fifty species of trees. Vermont hardwoods manufactures custom planed ripped sanded and shaped hardwood products. With sugar maple making up close to 20 of total growing stock of our forest it is little wonder why it is vermont s state tree. Of these sugar maples are probably the most common.

Tree species that occur in vermont. The last tree of two white birch trees that blew down just over a week ago. Slabs in the sawmill when it comes to lumber vermont tree goods hardwood selection can t be beat. This fall it will be ready to use.

Yellow birch sugar maple american beech eastern hemlock and white pine dominate shading hobblebush several species of ferns shining clubmoss and many species of fungi. The northern hardwood forest is the common forest type below 2 500 feet in vermont s green mountains. Each species has its own range of unique and beautiful characteristics some of which are only to be found in the fully matured trees we mill.