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An old lopped White Oak tree in the Northwest area of East Hampton.
A huge multi-trunked White Oak in Hither Woods.
The thin bark of American beech provides little protection from fire for its adventitious buds
and this species rarely survives a forest fire. The coppice growth exhibited by this beech in Hither Woods was probably the result of cutting.
For many years following a fire
this section of oak forest in the Stony Hill woods of Amagansett resembled a shrub thicket.
Twenty years after a fire destroyed the above-ground portion of this oak
