In Durham’s College Woods is where I first saw a black ash. It and maybe two or three others of its kind was growing in a wet spot adjacent to the University of New Hampshire’s athletic fields. One could look through the forest edge to the baseball field beyond.
If you have never seen this unique species, its corky, spongy bark looks like a peanut shell’s I have never found one again, but I surmise that tree cluster is still there. This ash species is native to much of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.
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