Created wood sculptures in southern Africa for forty years and moved to Saskatoon in Canada in 2022. Worked with indigenous wood sculptors in Botswana.
Saskatoon, Canada
Joined May 2016
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Christiane Stolhofer retweeted
7 Books by Women Writers About Humanity’s Relationship to Trees electricliterature.com/7-boo… via @electriclit Delighted to spot The Arbornaut by @canopymeg @fsgbooks and In Search of the Canary Tree by @OakesLE @BasicBooks in this excellent roundup by @SnowHydro @DGandBTweets
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New use for old tree. The Dragon Tree is indigenous to Cabo Verde and western Morocco. Its bright red resin ("dragon's blood") has been used for medicines. Now the tree that needs little water is being planted in "sustainable gardens" worldwide as way to cope with climate change.
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European artists were fascinated by "primative art" from Africa, like this 19th century Nigerian Yoruba statue. So, they copied them in painting and sculpture and were hailed as geniuses of creativity and revolutionary modern art. Meanwhile, the originals remained "primative art"
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Ensuring Indigenous Rights Key as Forest Carbon Investments Grow:
Billions of dollars of investments in tropical forests promised at #COP26 must underpin the rights of indigenous peoples, not just help companies cut emissions, say experts.
tmsnrt.rs/3CKMdVj @TRF_Climate
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Over 100 global leaders pledge to end deforestation by 2030 reuters.com/business/environ…
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Superb illustration showing some of the life that depends on deadwood.
You can get it here.
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🎨Jeroen Helmer/ARK Nature
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Some spectacular trees from around the world for you to enjoy during your stroll/scroll through Twitter.
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"Long-term we aim to work together to build a vast, international network of tweeting trees: in other words, an internet of trees" theconversation.com/to-save-… ht @Data_Orchard cc @shannonmattern
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Exploring Museum Collections 🌳 Xylarium
Our herbarium also has a xylarium (wood collection) of >15,700 specimens & documents. This white oak specimen has an intriguing note: "Flooring in White House". 🤔
Species: Quercus alba
Specimen: FLAS W11715
Milton F. Scott Wood Collection
ALT hand holding a playing card size section of finished wood with a label on it
ALT a wooden drawer containing numbered sections of similarly size sections of wood
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The Secrets of New England’s Last Great Old-Growth Forest #UShistory #foresthistory #envhist #wildlife via @MagazineofMaine downeast.com/land-wildlife/b…
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A glimpse, not of Heaven, but of the more-than-human Earth on Earth. Sydlings Copse @BBOWT
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With the introduction of co-management since 2016 and the boundary fence, big game has returned but the assault continues in the buffer zone of the Park to feed the ever-hungry tobacco barns. Unless we save the buffer zone, the integrity of the Park is under serious threat
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Have a listen to this fantastic discussion of MEMBRA and explanation of memory in trees by @ELunaDiez on @bbcworldservice. I’m *so* excited to be part of such an interesting, exciting project 💚🌳🌲
Tune into the @bbcworldservice at 20.30 (UK time) to learn about #MEMBRA bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1pr… @ELunaDiez will be discussing the concept of “memory” in trees. You can now listen to the clip 👉 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09xhf… @BIFoRUoB @PlantSci_UoB @UoBbiosciences
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The Daintree, Australia's World Heritage rainforest, has been handed back to its Aboriginal owners to become its custodian. bbc.co.uk/news/world-austral… #travel
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Africa's hardwoods like mahogany are not only beautiful, they endure! Africa's oldest boat, skillfully carved from mahogany an incredible 8500 years ago and discovered by a Fulani herdsman digging a well in 1987 (pic), can be seen by you at the Nigeria National Museum at Damaturu
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"The transformation of trees into data might seem a phenomenon of the modern era; but the use of trees in the technologies that record data has a very long history" placesjournal.org/article/tr…
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.@RichardMcLellan: Sandalwood is going extinct in the wild due to lack of recruitment of new germinants or seedlings.
"Walking around in a sandalwood forest is like walking in an old person's home. There are no middle aged, no kids, only old people slowly dying" #TheBioCon
