It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
August 26, 2011 at 4:00 pm by Amanda Cooke
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This Douglas fir in Washington State ate a bicycle (Sierra Club) - Might newly single New York Yankee Derek Jeter be concerned to hear that wood destined to become a Louisville Slugger is at risk? (Consumer Reports)
- Old school ecosystem services: Only when tree-like plants with deep roots took hold 330 million years ago were river banks stabilized (Scientific American)
- Recent heavy rains over the Northeast United States have made tree root systems highly vulnerable to damage from Hurricane Irene (The Weather Channel)
- From beech trees in southern Argentina to…Bavarian bierhaus? (Los Angeles Times)
- The site of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, unveiled this week, is surrounded by 182 Yoshino cherry trees that will blossom pink and white in the spring (Washington Post)
- More than 50,000 pages of palm-leaf manuscripts, dating from the eighth to 14th century, have been preserved in Tibet (Prokerala News)
- From the archives, unearthed today: In many countries, forests and forest ownership can be crucial to the survival strategies of farming women (Food and Agriculture Organization).
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Photo of Jerry Greenberg with ponderosa pine in New Mexico.
