Trees Group
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Share your love of trees & forests with us, discuss news about trees, get tree tips, go green, and connect with tree-loving people & organizations. We♥🌳!
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Joined December 2011
Today, August 9th, @Smokey_Bear turns 80. Even though we're celebrating all year long, here's a special happy birthday to Smokey direct from Xochitl Torres Small, Deputy Secretary of the @USDA. Happy birthday Smokey!
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Big-cone pine (Pinus coulteri) produces the world's largest pine cones by mass, reported to reach up to half a metre in length, and weigh 5kg. Wow.
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Want to know about wildfire? Join Forest Service scientists and others for another season of Forestcast, which will focus all episodes on wildfires. Search “Forestcast” wherever you get your podcasts. Here is the R&D page link for already aired episodes: https://t.co/AoFM3L6OkU
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Ever heard of a cuckoo tree? It's the term given when one tree grows out of another, in this case a holly growing out of a yew tree. Weird eh! 🤔 #cuckootree
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An Upside-Down Fig Tree that grows from the ceiling of an ancient Roman ruin in Bacoli, Italy - Archaeological Park of Baiae. The tree sprouts from the ceiling of the arch it grows inside, which was allegedly part of the Emperor Nero's private villa.
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The Signing Oak - Windsor Great Park, England 🌳 Approximately 900 years old Photo: Jeroen Philippona #trees
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Study Finds Spending Time Among #Trees Helps Kids’ Brain Development https://t.co/PbcKfGQxSN 🌳🧠
mymodernmet.com
Trees are critical to our global health—environmental, physical, and mental!
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Here's why a #tree is planted in Uganda every time a baby is born 9,000 miles away https://t.co/RRvdO8I9k8 🌳🇺🇬🍼🏴
upworthy.com
Whenever a child is born or adopted in Wales, two trees are planted, one in their home country and another in Uganda.
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For Big, Old #Trees, It's a Downhill Slide When It Comes to Reproduction
news.climate.columbia.edu
Akin to humans, the fertility of trees declines with age, a new study indicates.
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How a Juneau #arborist saved a paraglider stuck between two trees
ktoo.org
Talon Lobaugh spent several hours on Sunday rescuing a woman who was stuck between two trees while paragliding.
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Keep an eye on the tree trunks as we're entering in to the secondary growth and thickening phase of a trees growth season The tree now grows outward, putting on its growth ring for the year But you see cool stuff like this bark lifting! #SecondaryThickening #ThickTrunkTuesday
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Couple fined $18,000 for bulldozing dozens of Joshua #trees to make way for home
latimes.com
The owners bulldozed and buried 36 Joshua trees, which are endangered, on land in the Morongo Basin that they planned to develop for a home.
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The Buddhist practice of planting #trees in human ashes is saving space across the planet
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Monkeys poop a ‘rotten’ fruit #tree that’s new to science https://t.co/NQs97zI7pJ 🐒💩🌳
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Scientists at the University of Queensland have come up with a technique that uses just one millimetre of an #avocado tree cutting to create hundreds more
abc.net.au
Scientists can now create 500 new avocado trees from a single millimetre of tree cutting, making Australia's industry the fastest in the world.
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Take a gander at this informative brochure and learn about services that arborists provide, criteria for selecting an arborist, and the benefits of hiring an ISA Certified Arborist®. https://t.co/8eYrLYpEzD
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