MODERATELY TOLERANT INTOLERANT 
     
    
   
   
    
     TOLERANT 
     
     ‘ Red Oak P0P”r 
     
    

    
     Sugar Maple white Oak Hhite Birch 
     
    

    
     BeeCh Yellow Birch 5°“ntain 55h 
     
    

    
     Red Maple "hit, pin, Pin and choke Cherry 
     
    

    
     Eastern Hemlock "bile spruce Hillou 
     
    

    
     Red SPYUFC Black spruce Eastern Larch 
     
    

    
     Balsam Pir‘ Hazelnut Red Pine 
     
    

    
     Eastern Hhite Cedar pust:ian Pine 
     
     Elderberry 
     
     Alder 
     
    
   
   
    
     Figure 29. Before starting a specialty planting for wildlife refer to this chart to 
     
     determine how much shade the species can withstand. Shade tolerant trees are those which 
     
     can grow fairly well in shade. Intolerant trees are those which prefer full sunlight. To 
     
     get abundant berry or nut production, the trees require more sunlight than that required 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     to survive. 
     
     PLMT EOIl'l'H 
     
     . t. ct. 
     
     Red Maple arxxaax 
     
     Elderberry xxxrraxxxax 
     
     Pin Cherry axxx 
     
     Choke Cherry xaxx 
     
     Hild Pear xaxx 
     
     Hitherod (Viburnum) axax 
     
     Balsam fir (Var) xxx 
     
     Eastern Larch (Juniper) xxx 
     
     Hazelnut xaax 
     
     flitherod xaax 
     
     Mountain Ash aaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxaxxxxxxaxaaaxxxxxaxxxxxxxaaxax 
     
     Red Pine arxrxaraxaa 
     
     Hhite Pine xxaxaxaaax 
     
     White Spruce xxxaaxxxxxxrrx 
     
     Bayberry xxxxxxxxaaxxaaaaraxxxaxxarxxxxaxxxrxxaaaxax 
     
     Alder aaraaxxaxaxx 
     
     Red Oak axxxxxxx 
     
     White Oak axxxxaxxr 
     
     Butternut xxaxaxx 
     
     Wild Rose aaaaxaraxxxxaxaxaxaxxxaxxxxxxaaxxx 
     
     Beech arrrxx 
     
     Hawthorne xxxxxxxaarxxxaxxaxxxxxrarrxxxxxxr 
     
     Black Spruce axxrxxxarrrrxxaasxarxraxxxaaxxx 
     
     Austrian Pine axaxxxrxaxrxxaaxxaxrrax 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Pigure 30. the amount of seed or berries produced by a tree, shrub, or ground plant 
     
     varies from year to year, often dramatically. It is normally 6 to 12 years between bumper 
     
     crops of red oak acorns and 3 to 5 between bumper cone years in white spruce. Softwood 
     
     cones, excluding balsam fir, open slowly on the tree as they dry and drop their seed. 
     
     Balsam fir cones fall apart several weeks after they ripen. By careful selection of the 
     
     species to be planted and the planting locations, landowners can do their best to provide 
     
     a variety of seed and berry types during much of the year. The information below which 
     
     provides an estimate of the time seed will be available to seed eaters may be helpful in 
     
     planning your selections. Some animals move this seed to storage or hiding areas as it 
     
     comes to full maturity. this may make it available for prolonged periods, e.g. the red 
     
     squirrel forms underground or in tree storage areas which have high moisture content in 
     
     the air that prerents the cone from opening and the seed falling out or the cone falling 
     
     apart. . 
     
    
   
   
    
     WILDLIFE PLANTING INFORMATION by Dan McAskill 
     
     Illustrations by Kate Poole 
     
    
   
   
    
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