What's Your Nature?

Become a Nature Up North explorer to share your encounters with wild things and wild places in New York's North Country. Post your wildlife sightings, landscape shots, photos from your outings, and even your organization's events!

Forever Green

Posted by Celine Bouvier,
North Country explorer from Rouses Point, NEW York
April 12, 2014

One of my favorite aspects of nature in the North Country is its vibrant colors. The most vibrant, in my opinion, is green, since there is green all year round, thanks to our mass abundance of evergreen trees. They are always green because these certain species of conifers have adapted to low levels of nutrients, and therefore, their leaves do not die when there aren’t normal amounts of nutrients, like in the winter when most conifers shed their leaves, leaving them ever green. These beautiful trees are able to provide our already-beautiful atmosphere with more color during the winter months, when other trees cannot, which makes them the most beautiful trees of all.