Hackberry

Scout Island was named for the annual Boy Scout encampment once held there. The island is now a peninsula bordered on the east and south by Tetonkaha Lake and on the west by Johnson Lake. D.C. Mackintosh, a long-time scout leader from Brookings, was instrumental in planting many of the evergreen trees in the park. Along the trail, hackberry trees have bark with rough, warty lumps, narrow rough-edged leaves that taper like lopsided spear points, dark purplish berries that ripen in the fall and are favored by birds, and tangles of branches and twigs called witches' brooms that often develop as the tree grows older. Some call the hackberry the sugarberry tree.

South Dakota · United States