North Country explorer from Manchester, Vermont
This apple tree is located behind Whitman dorm; this picture is interesting for two reasons. The first is that animals have been using this tree as a source of food; in many ways you could say we planted a food source to keep animals alive during the cold months. The only apples that remain on the tree are high off the ground and on very skinny branches, probably too high for small animals like squirrels and rabbits and the branches too thin to support even a small animal. The second reason this picture is of interest is because there is a building about three meters away from the tree, this shows that what ever animals have been eating these apples are not concerned by human activity. Not only has this tree provided a source of food for wild animals, it has also in a sense domesticated them.