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Tree Notes
http://treenotes.blogspot.com/
- Author: Genevieve Netz
- Listed in: Green
- Tags: trees native+trees trees+for+wildlife best+trees tree+advice tree+problems
- Added on: Jul 28th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
A notebook of information about trees, especially trees for wildlife and native trees.
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A free tree field guide you can download
Field guide to Tennessee trees is applicable to surrounding states as wellI happened upon a free pocket field guide to Tennessee trees, written by a State of Tennessee forester. It's in pdf format, so you can download and print it. It has helpful i...
America's Atlantic white cedar swamps
Brief history of the Atlantic white cedar, Chamaecyparis thyoides When the first European settlers came to North America, they found a new-world member of the cypress family. It grew densely, often in pure stands, in the swamplands of the Atlantic c...
Wood that is durable underground
Woods with natural resistance to rotOn the Library of Congress American Memory website, I found some old magazine reports of studies done in the 1800s on the durability of wood . It's interesting, but not surprising, to see that those researchers di...
Emerald Ash Borer Update
Coping with the spread of a deadly tree pestEvery time I do a news search for "trees, there are several stories about the spread of the emerald ash borer.A sampling of recent news:Emerald ash borer continues to spread -- This column by Jim Ramsey in...
The Amazon Rain Forest in 1920
Old-growth, tropical forests of Brazil in the early 1900sThe following description of the Amazon rain forest is quoted from a 1920 geography textbook. I don't know if the authors had ever traveled to the Brazilian tropics -- probably not -- but they...
