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Craft it from black birch saplings or the limbs of other visually unique trees to give it extra appeal.—Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 31 Mar. 2023 But that study and others predict that hardwood tree species, and an opportunistic tree called black birch in particular, will eventually replace the dead and dying hemlock—a trend researchers have already noticed in Northeast woods.—Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021 Interestingly, North American trees such as red maple and black birch are more cautious and conservative than European and East Asian trees.—Richard B. Primack, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2021 Smaller maples and black birch also have been removed and smaller cedars from the preserve planted in their place.—Peter Marteka, courant.com, 4 Feb. 2018
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