Native Tree Society BBS

Apparently the two tallest trees in Iceland are both Sitka spruce ( Picea sitchensis ), and located near a small village called Kirkjubæjarklaustur in south central Iceland. They were both planted in 1949. In August of 2018, the tallest of the two was measured at 28.36 meters in height and 46.8 cm d...

I can see it.

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Red spruce restoration:

http://restoreredspruce.org

https://www.facebook.com/CentralAppalachianSpruceRestorationInitiative

The things that forests are capable of when you just L.I.T.H.A.! https://www.newsweek.com/2624-tree-north-carolina-swamp-oldest-planet-1421844 2,624-YEAR-OLD TREE DISCOVERED IN NORTH CAROLINA SWAMP IS ONE OF THE OLDEST ON EARTH Researchers have identified a group of ancient bald cypress trees which ...

I worked on the non-native invasive plant control program in Rock Creek National Park during one summer a while back. I believe we considered Norway maple one of our invasives that we were treating for. I believe it was outcompleting native maple species in the area. Even in forest interior areas. N...

I guess you can't embed Facebook videos here, oh well. Just click directly on the link to see the clip on the Conewango Creek Watershed Association Facebook page.

This brief video clip isn't from the Conewango, but from her neighboring watershed to the immediate west in Pennsylvania — Brokenstraw Creek. So it will give you a sense of what is currently going on on the Conewango too. With this week's unseasonably warm temperatures and today's rain, the Brokens...

Large burl on a black cherry (Prunus serotina) tree in the woods immediately outside the city of Warren, Pennsylvania, at approximately 1,440 feet in elevation.

Approximately 41° 51' 18" N, 79° 7' 54" W.

For three days in July, 1863, two great armies collided on the fields of Gettysburg. It remains the bloodiest battle in U.S. history. And, improbably, 155 years later, there are still living witnesses to that moment in time: The trees. Across 6,000 acres of Gettysburg National Military Park, ranger...

Three cheers for the already-passed-in-both-chambers-of-Congress farm bill! Among many other actions, when President Trump signs it into law it will permanently protect from all forms of development 20,000 acres of wilderness under the Wilderness Act of 1964 in Tennessee's Cherokee National Forest, ...