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A selection of Oak buds from Eastern North America Source: Feral Foraging
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Forgotten Woodlands / Coilltean Caillte: an online map of 15,000 Scottish place names that suggest the presence of woodland storymaps.arcgis.com/stories…
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Where the quest to develop a blight resistant GMO American chestnut went wrong. Kate Morgan's insightful article in New York Magazine reveals new details. #TACF #science #integrity nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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American Chestnut: the Struggle to Save the ‘Redwood of the East’ | via Worldmagazine #TACF worldmagazine.it/1118911/
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A village in Germany whose houses are built on giant blocks that look like tree stumps
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Brown bears confounding restoration efforts by digging up artificial forests. University of Tokyo scientists find that bears seeking cicada nymphs damaged tree roots and altered the soil nitrogen content which limits diameter growth of trees. #Forests u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press…
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New website Explore Fall for tracking fall color change explorefall.com/
Mapping the colors of autumn. "Peter Forister is a 2019 Virginia Tech grad who earned a degree in geography with a minor in meteorology. He is building maps for Explore Fall, a website that lets users know the level of color anywhere in the United States." buff.ly/3LRQv3D
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In Japan,distillers are gearing up to produce Tree Sake after discovering new ways to extract sugars from wood mainichi.jp/english/articles…
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