New Wood Samples List Available
It’s that time again – making a public announcement of my latest list. I’m a bit late this year as the lawn needs to be mowed, the flower gardens are … Read more
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It’s that time again – making a public announcement of my latest list. I’m a bit late this year as the lawn needs to be mowed, the flower gardens are … Read more
Pacific Northwest’s high temps ‘cooked’ widespread foliageEnvironmental Protection Agency scientist Peter Beedlow examines dead Douglas fir trees Oct. 27 in Oregon’s Willamette National Forest. The trees died from insect damage … Read more
A disk of Gymnanthes Lucida [Euphorbiaceae] collected on December 7, 2005 by Alan Curtis & Willem Hurkmans near the archaeological site of Kohunlich, Quintana Roo, Mexico. I counted 76 growth rings.
Our President-elect, Mark Duff, is in Oaxaca, Mexico this week. He sent this photo of the Tule Tree, Taxidium mucronatum. About 130 feet tall and over 150 feet in circumference- estimated … Read more
Giant Lion Sculpture Carved from Single Tree Trunk Took 20 People and 3 Years to Complete. 05/19/2017 A giant wooden sculpture of a roaring lion now stands proudly in a Central Chinese city … Read more
Washington apple growers sink their teeth into the NEW COSMIC CRISP. 05/07/2017 https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/03/525421226/washington-apple-growers-sink-their-teeth-into-the-new-cosmic-crisp
There Are More Than 60,000 Tree Species Worldwide, Scientists Say. 04/15/2017
Gold Grows On Eucalyptus Trees. Australian researchers confirm that deep-rooted Eucalyptus trees pilfer gold from ore deposits underground and transport them into their leaves.03/06/2017
Wildfires in Colorado could get worse because of state’s 834 million dead trees. DENVER – Colorado’s beetle-infested forests are peppered with an estimated 834 million standing dead trees that threaten to … Read more