tgreeno wrote:Is there any way of telling if an island has white oaks from a distance, if you're going in blind? Do most marsh islands has oaks on them?
My tree identification skills are not great.
I usually find them while scouting in the winter otherwise blind you can glass them from a distance and hopefully see the round lobes on the leaves. I don't see any red oaks on any islands I hunt around here. They are mostly white oaks and hickory. I find just about any island that has some decent elevation and never gets flooded has oaks on them. The hardwood islands are very easy to see from a distance. Also oaks keep their leaves well after other trees drop them. That's when they are especially easy to spot but by then most acorns are already gone.