It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
February 15, 2013 at 12:15 pm by Amanda Cooke
Here's your tree news from around the world this week:
- The incredible Italian home where everything is made out of wood...and I mean everything [UK Daily Mail]
- Happy Chinese New Year! 2013 is the "Year of the Snake", so here are ssssome snake photos for your viewing pleassssure [Mongabay.com]
- Indonesia's Sumatran orangutan population has been hit hard by deforestation [The UK Guardian]
- Lai Pei-yuan is known as Taiwan's "King of the Trees". For the past three decades, Lai has bought and planted thousands of trees every year, often with his own hands. A remarkable story [Agence France-Presse]
- Add to the perils of drought, insects, and wildfires, a new potential climate-related threat to the pinyon pine: dramatically lower production of seed-be aring cones [The Christian Science Monitor]
- High-intensity fires in the crowns of trees can force long-term changes in ponderosa pine forests, making it unlikely for thetrees to ever regenerate [The Payson Roundup, hat tip to Seyden.net]
- My Land Plan is for the love of our woods [AFF Blog]
