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Our softwood trees are mostly White Pine and Eastern Hemlock around her in southern NH. The spruces and balsam fir are mostly in ME , northern NH up into Quebec and New Brunswick. They are higher elevation species.

The main hardwood trees are the oaks, maples and birches. The maples varieties are what gives New England the bright fall foliage colors of leaves that turn red, yellow and orange.

We do not have extended droughts here in New England like you do out west. This year we had more rain in July than any previous year. A couple years back we had the driest July in years. However, it never lasts more than a few months.

FYI, I have a degree in Wood Products Engineering. I have been a professional lumber trader for 33 years. I buy and sell Douglas Fir from mills like Weyerhaeuser, Seneca, Rosboro, Hampton, Interfor and Frank Lumber that are right in your back yard.

Wow, so you know all about our high production fir trees? Most of those mills have their own tree stands, they really take care of their forests. But they still buy from small timber growers, like ours. We harvested about 35 acres and got 405,000 board feet of mostly fir and a little cedar. All of it was bought by the local mills, Roseburg Forest Products and Keller Lumber that only mills cedar.

Most days I am watering some of the baby trees, the ones closer to our house that we can see. The logged land is so bad looking, I keep looking for the green of the baby trees to show, it may be a few more years. Worried about them with the drought.