In Search of the New Trees on the Block
Climate scientists are working out which trees our cities will need.
Tag: trees
Don’t Blame the Bark Beetles
While walking in the woods, you’ve likely encountered a dead log engraved with maze-like squiggles. These natural carvings are known as beetle galleries, and the grooves are munched out by...
An Enduring Oak Mystery: Synchronized Acorn Booms
How do the trees synchronize their reproductive efforts? Oaks, the dominant tree genus throughout much of low- and mid-elevation, temperate California, are full of mysteries.
Redwood Memory
Old redwood trees have seen fire many times in their lives. It’s because of their fire scars—not in spite of them—that the redwood forest thrives.
Listen Closely, the Trees are Talking
When people say that trees "talk" to each other, that's a concept that rests, in part, on an extraordinary and microscopic relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the roots of...
Explore the Pygmy Forests of Van Damme State Park
If you head north along the coast this spring, take time to discover the pygmy forests growing (very slowly) in the uplands of Mendocino.
Tree Detectives
The Northern California black walnut led scientists into a genetic mystery: is this a rare tree, or a common one?
Can An Antiseptic Nursery Stop Sudden Oak Death?
Can the SFPUC's new nursery slow the spread of a tree-killing fungus?
