On December 20th, 2013 the North Country was hit with a devastating ice storm that resulted in massive amounts of snow and ice, along with the loss of power across St. Lawrence County. In specific, there was over an inch of ice in St. Lawrence County after the storm ended two days later. The ice accumulated on trees, forcing them to bend over, shed their leaves and in extreme cases, lose their limbs. This particular deciduous tree, located on St. Lawrence University’s campus, seems to have lost two of its front limbs. It is evident that these branches fell because there is not a clean-cut appearance to the two barkless areas. Instead, it looks like the limbs were ripped out and not cut down by a saw. During the 2013 ice storm, there were plenty of harsh winds and ice weighing down the tree limbs. Luckily this tree did not lose all of its limbs because if that were the case, it would be hard for the tree to regain its health. Trees depend on their limbs to grow foliage in different seasons so that water, phosphorous and nitrogen can circulate throughout the entire tree. If this tree had lost more than half of its limbs, it would not be able to produce enough foliage to support it in future seasons. Because this particular tree did lose two of its limbs, and it is unclear how big they were, it will most likely redirect most of its energy to the other limbs. This will result in more branches on the existing limbs by the end of this summer and into the future seasons, to maintain a healthy amount of foliage for overall health purposes.