Native Tree Society BBS

Two shots of the beautiful! trunk of a healthy 18" DBH Eastern hornbeam ( Ostrya virginiana ) inspected yesterday by my husband Peter, an ISA-certified arborist. Submitted to Eli Dickerson for Atlanta City champion measurement if appropriate. (I don't know why the images are showing up sideways in t...

Brian,
The sideways (horizontal) "trunk" is a scaffold branch. The huge trunk on the left is a "leader." These distinctions come from my husband Peter, a Certified Arborist.
George,
Too bad I didn't have a tape measure!!

While visiting my sister, we drove past this ginormous copper beech on private property near the main road (Main St.) going toward the lighthouse in Chatham. I would've crashed the car had I been driving.

For those who are interested, Dr. Meg Lowman, aka "Canopy Meg," the "mother of canopy research," is "heading up a biodiversity survey in Penang, Malaysia with approximately 45 local and international scientists. Their mission is to tally the species living on Penang Hill, beloved by the citizens of ...

There was an interview of David Milarch on NPR Radio this morning.
https://www.npr.org/2012/12/08/16678404 ... ith-clones
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I have asked Ed to move this climate change discussion to its own thread. I for one do not want to be reading junk from deniers in different threads every time I open up the digest. It's bad enough that I have to see and hear this crap every day on the news. To be even more blunt, if this conversati...

The trees look nice, but the flowers smell terrible, and yes, then the branches start breaking off and you have one ugly mess. Bradford pear trees are so awful that they are even exempt from the Atlanta Tree Protection Ordinance, which requires a permit to remove almost every other species (exceptio...

Way to go, Bob! But we're still waiting for you (and Ray?) to come back to Georgia so we can get you INTO a tree, not just underneath one.

Bob and Lee,
You might consider doing your book as an ebook, which gives you the capability of adding and editing, as needed; also makes it more accessible vis-a-vis reach and cost.
Patty

This is the poem Bob Foresti's signature suggests. As intended, it stops me in my tracks. On a Tree Fallen Across the Road - Poem by Robert Frost (To hear us talk) The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to a...