Spent my life working in the forest industry from logger to professional Forester, I have to say Yellow Birch and Red Spruce. Love the gold to silver metallic bark on the yellow birch and the symmetry of the gun barrel straight Red Spruce.

As a die hard squirrel slayer at the age of 10 I looked for every scalley bark hickory I could find. I knew those where the first trees to find the mother load early on opening day.

No one has mentioned betula alagansis, the king of the Adirondacks.

like asking who's your favorite child!

I don't think it's possible to pick a favorite for me. Trees have made me a living, provid me with winter heat sweats and meat( maple syrup, squirrels and deer) shelter when out in bad weather, lumber, I just really like trees. Someday I'm going to travel across the country and break my rule of not spending time in a communist state and go see the giant red woods.

Burr Oak - grow well here in Kansas, survive fire, make great firewood and lumber. But, more importantly, create a lot of mast for wildlife.

Since I do not have any mature oaks on my farm, my favorite tree of all things is the Osage Orange or hedge tree - creates a lot of squirrel food, grows anywhere here...to the point of too much, can handle a tree stand, and makes about the strongest longest lasting wooden fence posts known to man. Cattle and deer do eat the leaves. Also, branches make great brush piles for rabbitat and crappie.

Western cedar and cottonwood.

Sycamore nature's camouflage tree

Big purdy smooth Whiteoak , it got me where i am today . Smells like caramel when you saw it and the price cant be beat.

same here.

actually, I have THREE trees to see on my "bucket list"...the redwoods, giant sequoia, and bristlecone pine.

Any tree except from the pine family.

White oak. Listening to deer crunch the acorns, back when I could hear the crunch.

Birch Trees.

Blue beech trees are very cool. They sure stand out from other trees in a small woodlot.

Any of the oak trees are great as long as they're healthy. I appreciate hardwood trees in general. I don't care for pine trees even though they have great value when it comes to market.

We have very few hedge trees here.

Lone towering white pines on the edge of wetlands are a favorite tree of mine. Get way up 40+ feet and you can peer down in the thick tag alder and willow brush. Killed many a buck doing that.

Big gnarly osage orange trees are another close to the top. The wood is like steel and lasts forever. You have to hunt for a tree with a straight enough grain to make a bow. Very vibrant yellow wood that mellows in time to a deep brown.

Cottonwood and white oak are another worth mentioning just because of the sheer size they grow. Standing besides trees as big around as a pickup you just wonder who or what has passed by in the 2-300 years since it sprouted.

Sugar Pine, with their huge cones are cool trees.

I lusted over every big, straight spruce tree I laid eyes on when I was searching for suitable material for my cabin. After felling them, limbing them, peeling and notching them...I don't care if I ever see another.

The most beautiful conifers on earth , to me, are the lowland, and mountain Hemlock , and huge cedars here. The cedars here get as large as anyplace on earth, smell great, and make gorgeous wooden things. A stand of old growth Hemlock, all with their drooping tops and black green gnarly boughs, are as part of the high country as the mountains themselves. Love all the maples, too.

I could go on, but these top my list.