Comments on: Do New England’s trees have a really good lobbying firm?

By: smackfu

smackfu — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:33:50 +0000

It’s the red trees. You need the red trees to spice it up, otherwise it’s just shades of brown.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:01:49 +0000

Everything is better on the East Coast.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:57:37 +0000

It might be the proximity to national media. With more people in the region, and of those people, more working in media, they have a bigger megaphone to advertise how awesome their leaves are.

By: starman

starman — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:22:10 +0000

I might guess that the colors aren’t necessarily better, but they do have the right mix of tree density, population close enough by to make it a destination, good PR, and small, quaint photogenic towns. I don’t know about states like Ohio or Indiana but Iowa has nice colors, just not very many trees (relatively speaking). Minnesota has great colors but they don’t last very long. Also, we’re more spread out than New England without the large number of urban dwellers who might “miss” the fall colors. I imagine NE gets a lot of New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. visitors.

By: Josh Millard

Josh Millard — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:16:40 +0000

So Quebec is the deciduous New England of Cananda?

Foolish of me not to break out the internationalizing addendum, I guess. Feel free to extrapolate as necessary.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:11:09 +0000

Why are the colors of the leaves in New England considered more beautiful than the ones elsewhere?

You are mistaken, they do not. The leaves in Quebec re similar but better.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:03:26 +0000

I don’t know about Portland, but up here in the Seattle area, unless we have a nice dry autumn leaves are generally a drab yellow or brown when they turn, exotic species excepted. This year we got pretty nice color but in New England the palette is much broader and spectacular. Bill Bryson wrote about the scientific reasons why in one of his books, but I’m too lazy to find it.