Dead Ash Tree
www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/02/25/after-blight-trees-survived-need-your-help
www.fs.usda.gov/research/news/highlights/scientists-join-forces-save-ash-trees-facing-intercontinental-threats
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Ash Forest - May 6th 2023
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Onnen
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Land of Fraxinus, Populous, Quercus & Acer - A dream of mine.
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Summer sun, somethings begun….
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As we make our way up the trail, the old-growth evangelist, as Leverett is often called, explains that though individual trees in New England have famously escaped the ax—the nearly 400-year-old Endicott pear tree in Danvers, Massachusetts, comes to mind—when ecologists discuss old growth, they’re talking not about single specimens but about systems, about uninterrupted ecological cycles over time. These are forests sustained by myriad sets of biological processes: complex, interconnected systems of perpetual renewal. While there is no universally accepted definition of old growth, the term came into use in the 1970s to describe multispecies forests that had been left alone for at least 150 years.
And that’s exactly what we’re seeing at Ice Glen, so-named for the deposits of ice that lived in its deep, rocky crevasses well into the summer months. Hemlocks hundreds of years old loom over gnarled and thick-trunked sugar maples as sunlight thickens into shadow through a cascade of microclimates. White pines reach skyward past doomed ash trees and bent-limbed black birch; striped maples diffuse a chlorophyll green across the forest floor through leaves the size of lily pads, while yellow birch coils its roots around lichen-covered rock; long-ago fallen, moss-heavy nurse logs return to earth only to re-emerge as philodendron and hemlock. Elsewhere, maidenhair, blue cohosh and sassafras abound, auguries of a nutrient-heavy, fertile forest floor. Walking through woods like these, the kind of hemlock-northern hardwood forests that once thrived in the Appalachians from Maine to North Carolina, is an encounter with deep time.
— Old, Primeval Forests May Be a Powerful Tool to Fight Climate Change
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More emerald ash borer damage. It's definitely fatal. :(
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𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞.
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rumble in the jungle
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In Amongst the Trees -- RDP
In Amongst the Trees is my latest post for RDP Saturday: Ash #photography #ash
Hi all 😃 My post for Ragtag Daily Prompt Saturday: Ash.
Ash trees in Pollock Country Park.
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hope i get a lizard. i literally love those little guys i grew up in florida and all i did in my free time is catch brown anoles and the like and give them little pats. theres this one kinda lizard native to florida thats green and color changes to brown, and i had only really heard of them in nature articles or whatever because they werent really around in my area but i made it my lifes mission to catch one of those lil shitters. and after years. i think it was last year maybe? i found one at a playground near my house. and he was beautiful. exactly the kind i was looking for, and he was even shedding a bit (always love to find shedding lizards). but every time i passed that playground, i could never catch him. and every time i fucking tried to get a picture he would immediately change to brown. from then on, i dubbed him Green Bean Greebo. He is my one true nemesis.
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Closest match: Fraxinus pennsylvanica genome assembly, chromosome: 9
Common name: Green ash
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Sections of wood of White ash. The trees of Vermont. 1916.
Internet Archive
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Locust Tree ~ Love beyond the Grave 🪦
- a recreation of Amatis Graymark’s flower card -
characters by @cassandraclare 🤍
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