UC Berkeley: UC Berkeley’s mass timber research is impacting the decarbonization of California’s construction industry. “Unlike traditional construction lumber, DLT panels can be made from a wide variety of wood species. Weak or small-diameter trees that cannot otherwise be used for construction, such as red fir, hemlock, and Ponderosa pine, can be joined together to create strong DLT […]

Eastern Red Cedar, Colony Shoreline Trail, January 2026, Winter Storm

#Androidphotography #AmateurPhotography #Texas #Dendrology #EasternRedCedar #Nature

Limerick Post: Limerick council “putting down roots”. “LIMERICK Council is putting down roots in a new online platform which allows all new tree planting across the city and county to be recorded…. The website will help track progress, celebrate local action, and support informed planning for climate action, biodiversity protection and sustainable development.”

don’t conflate evergreen and deciduous trees with angiosperms (or, flowering trees) and conifers (or, cone-bearing) trees—at least in the temperate north.

american holly is a great example: it is a flowering evergreen tree

#dendrology

Ok, #botany and #dendrology people, could I ask you for verification of the claims made in this video, about the spiral path of juices traveling through a tree?

Honestly I love Andrew Millison #permaculture videos but this video... This video triggers my bullshit detector. There's nothing outrageous here but it just gives this cultist vibe of hidden symbolism. I would really hate it if it turned out permaculture was bs. I really want it not to be.

How to Read the Invisible Language of Nature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23i756NEAtg

University of Tennessee: Eighty-five Years of Big Tree History Available in One Place for the First Time. “The curious can now also explore the historical documents of the nation’s biggest trees dating back to the 1940s online, in one place, for the first time. The National Champion Tree Program at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has compiled historical records dating […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/19/university-of-tennessee-eighty-five-years-of-big-tree-history-available-in-one-place-for-the-first-time/

INRAE: Largest database on Mediterranean trees available through open access. “An international network of 30 scientists, coordinated by INRAE and the European Forest Institute (EFI) and involving Aix-Marseille Université, the University of Montpellier, the French National Forest Office and the French National Museum of Natural History, drew up an inventory of 496 species and 147 subspecies of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/19/inrae-largest-database-on-mediterranean-trees-available-through-open-access/

Google Blog: Explore the amazing world of trees with World Wide Wood. “Celebrate the wonders and importance of trees with World Wide Wood, a Google Arts & Culture project dedicated to these incredible organisms. World Wide Wood features contributions from more than 100 partners in 36 countries, including natural history museums, intergovernmental organizations, conservation initiatives and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/01/google-blog-explore-the-amazing-world-of-trees-with-world-wide-wood/