It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
February 24, 2012 at 11:47 am by Amanda Cooke
Sifrhippus, Tricholaema diademata, and Dendroctonus ponderosae make headlines this week. Here's your tree news from around the world:
- Neigh...meow? Cat-sized horses named Sifrhippus roamed North America's prehistoric forests (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- Tweet tweet: Can you identify the current taxonomic family and species of this arboreal mystery bird? (The Guardian UK's Grrlscientist blog)
- Beetle-killed lodgepole pine needles ignite three times faster than those of living trees (Missoulian)
- Oscars weekend: The Tree of Life is nominated for the best picture Academy Award. What do you think is the greatest tree in cinema history? (Slate)
- Own woods? Thank your forester by supporting the Forest Stewardship Program (iPetition via AFF)
- Whoa: A 300-million-year-old tropical forest was preserved in ash when a volcano erupted in what is today northern China (University of Pennsylvania)
- Want to hunt down invasives in your woods? There's now an app for that (USFS Southern Research Station)
- Happy 110th birthday, Ansel Adams! Here are some of the photographer's most breathtaking nature shots (Mother Nature Network)
- After the horrific Japanese tsunami, one lonely pine tree out of a forest of more than 60,000 clung to life...until now. (Reuters)
- Global health update: Smoke from burning forests and grasslands kills on average 339,000 people a year worldwide, according to a new report (Fox News)
- Photo album: This family of Alabama Tree Farmers loves connecting to nature and spending time together in their forest (Dewberry Lands blog)
- Royal goal: To protect the watershed and reduce risk of flooding, his Majesty the King of Thailand urges his government to preserve forests (Bangkok Post)
- Remember, don't move firewood! Here's how you can help protect our forests (Twitter's @TheCampyMom)
Photo credit: Steve Stinson of Cowlitz Ridge Tree Farm FLP in Lewis County, Washinton. The photo shows an Environmental Quality Incentives Program forest health unit. Root rot killed the original tree stand & USDA-NRCS provided Steve with snag creation, tree planting and tubing.
