It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

May 4, 2012 at 6:30 pm by Amanda Cooke

Here's your tree news from around the world this week:

Keep your eyes trained on the sky this weekend to catch a glimpse of a "super moon". For reasons not fully understood by astronomers or psychologists, low-hanging Moons look unnaturally large when they beam through trees and other foreground objects [NASA]
A mountain nursery is being planted in Montana to help restore the threatened whitebark pine [Billings Gazette]
The white-spotted sawyer beetle loves barbeque: The insect is feasting away on Canada's fire-burned boreal forests [Montreal Gazette]
A new book entitled American Canopy tells the history of America through its trees [NPR]
The largest fossil forest ever discovered lies in the depths of an Illinois coal mine. Huge fossilized trees still stand rooted in their original soil, surrounded by the litter of leaves that once fluttered down [New York Times]
A bizarre new branch of drinking game in New Zealand has emerged and is resulting in tree damage and widespread littering. Called "possum", the game is simple: you sit in a tree and drink until you fall out of it [Guardian UK]
The United Nations has boosted research about ecosystem services, the public and economic benefits provided by nature [Forbes]
Watch this video of a hydraulically-powered, truck-mounted claw transplant an entire tree and root ball [Gizmodo]
Green energy is the heart of the curriculum at a Project Learning Tree GreenSchool! in New Jersey [AFF Blog]
Family forest owners need the USDA Farm Bill. Here's why [AFF blog]