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Are the trees in residential yards pretty much all tall pine trees (Chapel Hill primarily, but also curious is this holds true in the entire Triangle area)? I just arrived in Chapel Hill at an airbnb about 8 blocks north or Franklin Street, and it strikes me that the land in residential areas seems to be primarily tall pine trees. Curious if this is the general case in the area, or are there residential areas with not many pines and more so decidious trees? Anyhow, I am here for a month in an airbnb to check out the area to possibly live here.
There are definitely pines here for sure but you also see oaks, tulip poplar, sweet gum, maples, etc. Really depends on the area. I had a friend who lived in Chapel Hill and she had mostly pines so it might be more in that area.
pines rule. "Here's to the land of the long leaf pine" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_...na_State_Toast
sweet gums are #2. poplar of all types are popular. maples, maybe...it depends. oaks are a Raleigh thing.
I don't find Chapel Hill to have a preponderance of pines. If you want to see a lot of pines go to Southeastern NC. I think it's the predominate genus down there. Here in the piedmont, which Chapel Hill is definitely part of (Raleigh is on the eastern edge), mixed deciduous hardwood forests are more common. Pine trees are common throughout NC, but there are more hardwoods in this area than pines (about 74% of forest cover here is hardwood forest, mostly oak-hickory). There are many, many varieties of pine trees in NC, though. I'd guess that the tall trees you're describing would be loblolly, but could be slash pine, pitch pine, pond pine or any number of other pines.
I'm sure if you drive around a little you'll see many other tree species.
I've raked so many leaves at my parents house, I know there are more than pine trees (though there are a lot of them). Oak, hickory, maple, tulip poplar, sweet gum, walnut, dogwood drop lots of leaves in the fall. And then compost down to just about nothing.
It depends on the age of the woods. As woods are growing, pine trees grow first. Over time, hardwoods move in and provide too much shade for pine trees to compete effectively, so the woods switch over to hardwoods. For my house, it is predominately oaks with a smattering of sweet gums and the occasional pine tree, along with dogwoods, red buds, and other random hardwoods.
It depends on the age of the woods. As woods are growing, pine trees grow first. Over time, hardwoods move in and provide too much shade for pine trees to compete effectively, so the woods switch over to hardwoods.
If your trees are mostly pines, the land was probably farmland well after WW2 before being abandoned and left to revert to woods.
UNC has old USDA aerials for the Triangle if you want to see whether your property was woods or fields in the 1930s-1970s: http://library.unc.edu/data/gis-usda/
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