Betula Populifolia - Version 2014.3. Stritch, L. In The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, pages 194635/0+. 2014.
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[Excerpt] Betula populifolia is a very common species in the northeastern portion of its geographic range. At the southern and western portions of its range it occurs as disjunct populations in Indiana, West Virginia and Virginia. There are no known threats that are or will adversely affect this species in the foreseeable future. It is assessed as Least Concern.\textasciitilde [::Common Name(s)] [::]English - Gray birch, Wire birch, Old field birch, White birch, Fire birch [::]French - Bouleau a feuilles de peuplier, Bouleau gris, Bouleau rouge [::Range Description] This species is found from eastern Ontario to Quebec and the maritime provinces (not Newfoundland) south to North Carolina and west to Illinois. Ashburner and McAllister (2013) incorrectly report Betula populifolia from South Carolina. Occurrences in Illinois and North Carolina are not native but rare escapes from cultivation. Coladonato (1992) reports this species extinct in Delaware. [::Countries] Native:Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Québec); United States (Connecticut, Delaware - Possibly Extinct, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina - Vagrant, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia) [::Population] Betula populifolia is a very common species with a broad geographic distribution in northeastern North America. However, there are no hard data on population numbers due to it being common and not an important commercial species. \textasciitilde [::Habitat and Ecology] Trees to 10 m, this species is an early colonizer of rocky, open sandy woods, old fields, road cuts and burned areas. It springs up in vast numbers after forest fires and then provides shade and shelter for seedlings of more valuable species until finally overwhelmed by them. It is listed as a common associate of the aspen-birch and beech-birch-maple communities in the northeastern hardwood forest. It is documented as occurring in the following Society of American Foresters Cover Types: 5 (Balsam fir), 19 (Gray birch - red maple), 21 (Eastern white pine), 22 (White pine - hemlock), 25 (Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch), 32~(Red spruce), 33 (Red spruce - balsam fir), 35~(Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir), 39 (Black ash - American elm - red maple), 45 (Pitch pine), 46 (Eastern redcedar) and 97 (Atlantic white-cedar).\textasciitilde The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers National Wetlands Plant List~(NWPL) ranks gray birch as a facultative species for the Midwest, North Central & Northeastern, Eastern Mountains & Piedmont, and Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Regions.\textasciitilde This species is said to be short lived, rarely living longer than 50 years, so may be the shortest lived of all birches.\textasciitilde [::Use and Trade] This species~is easily worked with tools and is an excellent wood for turning. It is used for woodenware such as spools, clothespins and novelties. It is much less valued than Betula papyrifera because of its small size, short life and limited distribution. Its wood is often used for fuel, and stands can be cut for firewood at comparatively frequent intervals because of its ability to regenerate quickly. Its status as a pioneer species and its adaptability to disturbed sites indicate that this species is a good hardwood species for use in revegetation of mine spoils and other disturbed areas.\textasciitilde It has been planted successfully on acid coal mine spoils in Pennsylvania. The Iroquois used this species medicinally to treat bleeding piles, and the Micmac, to treat infected cuts and as an emetic Birds, especially goldfinches and other small-seed eaters, feed heavily on ripe gray birch seeds.\textasciitilde [::Major Threat(s)] There are no known threats impacting on this species. NatureServe (2013) ranks this species as globally secure.~This species is more resistant than B. papyrifera~to the bronze birch borer, and is seldom killed by it. Likewise, chinch bugs infest the young catkins and leaves, but the tree seems to tolerate them.
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  title = {Betula Populifolia - {{Version}} 2014.3},
  booktitle = {The {{IUCN Red List}} of {{Threatened Species}}},
  author = {Stritch, L.},
  year = {2014},
  pages = {194635/0+},
  abstract = {[Excerpt] Betula populifolia is a very common species in the northeastern portion of its geographic range. At the southern and western portions of its range it occurs as disjunct populations in Indiana, West Virginia and Virginia. There are no known threats that are or will adversely affect this species in the foreseeable future. It is assessed as Least Concern.\textasciitilde{} [::Common Name(s)] [::]English - Gray birch, Wire birch, Old field birch, White birch, Fire birch [::]French - Bouleau a feuilles de peuplier, Bouleau gris, Bouleau rouge [::Range Description] This species is found from eastern Ontario to Quebec and the maritime provinces (not Newfoundland) south to North Carolina and west to Illinois. Ashburner and McAllister (2013) incorrectly report Betula populifolia from South Carolina. Occurrences in Illinois and North Carolina are not native but rare escapes from cultivation. Coladonato (1992) reports this species extinct in Delaware. [::Countries] Native:Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Qu\'ebec); United States (Connecticut, Delaware - Possibly Extinct, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina - Vagrant, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia) [::Population] Betula populifolia is a very common species with a broad geographic distribution in northeastern North America. However, there are no hard data on population numbers due to it being common and not an important commercial species. \textasciitilde{} [::Habitat and Ecology] Trees to 10 m, this species is an early colonizer of rocky, open sandy woods, old fields, road cuts and burned areas. It springs up in vast numbers after forest fires and then provides shade and shelter for seedlings of more valuable species until finally overwhelmed by them. It is listed as a common associate of the aspen-birch and beech-birch-maple communities in the northeastern hardwood forest. It is documented as occurring in the following Society of American Foresters Cover Types: 5 (Balsam fir), 19 (Gray birch - red maple), 21 (Eastern white pine), 22 (White pine - hemlock), 25 (Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch), 32~(Red spruce), 33 (Red spruce - balsam fir), 35~(Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir), 39 (Black ash - American elm - red maple), 45 (Pitch pine), 46 (Eastern redcedar) and 97 (Atlantic white-cedar).\textasciitilde{} The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers National Wetlands Plant List~(NWPL) ranks gray birch as a facultative species for the Midwest, North Central \& Northeastern, Eastern Mountains \& Piedmont, and Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Regions.\textasciitilde{} This species is said to be short lived, rarely living longer than 50 years, so may be the shortest lived of all birches.\textasciitilde{} [::Use and Trade] This species~is easily worked with tools and is an excellent wood for turning. It is used for woodenware such as spools, clothespins and novelties. It is much less valued than Betula papyrifera because of its small size, short life and limited distribution. Its wood is often used for fuel, and stands can be cut for firewood at comparatively frequent intervals because of its ability to regenerate quickly. Its status as a pioneer species and its adaptability to disturbed sites indicate that this species is a good hardwood species for use in revegetation of mine spoils and other disturbed areas.\textasciitilde{} It has been planted successfully on acid coal mine spoils in Pennsylvania. The Iroquois used this species medicinally to treat bleeding piles, and the Micmac, to treat infected cuts and as an emetic Birds, especially goldfinches and other small-seed eaters, feed heavily on ripe gray birch seeds.\textasciitilde{} [::Major Threat(s)] There are no known threats impacting on this species. NatureServe (2013) ranks this species as globally secure.~This species is more resistant than B. papyrifera~to the bronze birch borer, and is seldom killed by it. Likewise, chinch bugs infest the young catkins and leaves, but the tree seems to tolerate them.},
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