How to Identify Trees for Beginners

This is not an unabridged guide on how to identify trees. Quite the opposite, it is advice provided by a novice tree identifier and humble naturalist as to what I have learned about tree identification. A “For Beginners, by a Beginner” you might say. And why would the world need such a guide? Well, the process of going from “That’s a tree” to “Yeah, that’s a Sitka spruce, they’re rad just for their size and shade, but one of their greatest…