Posted: June 30, 2022
Back in 1972, the grandfather of Jonathan Barichivich discovered a Patagonian cypress that might be the oldest tree in the world. He found it in the Andes Mountains of South America in the Alerce Costero National Park in Chile. Today, Barichivich of Chile is an environmental scientist working at the Climate and Environmental Sciences Laboratory
Posted: June 14, 2022
When I was selling my books at a local store recently, a man stopped at my book table. He began telling me about the many juniper and cedar trees that grow near his house. They were looking parched, hungry for water. In the area where we live in northwest New Mexico, we haven’t had any
Posted: May 28, 2022
Scientists who study plants have discovered something interesting. Plants have emotions. That might seem crazy. How could plants have emotions? They’re just – plants! Cleve Backster, who was a well-known lie-detector examiner, had an experience in 1966 that made him start studying plants and measuring their reaction to things that happened to them. Once when
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Posted: May 12, 2022
A clump of yucca in my yard is blooming more than I have ever seen it bloom before. I counted 14 different blossom towers on it, at least twice as many as I’ve seen it produce in the past. I don’t know why it has chosen this year to bloom in such an incredibly beautiful
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Posted: April 27, 2022
One of my favorite authors who emphasizes Earth Day year-round is Diana Beresford-Kroeger. One of her most well-known books is To Speak for the Trees. Not only is she a well-educated scientist, with degrees in botany and biochemistry, but she has spent her life helping people understand the importance of trees for the well-being of
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Posted: April 9, 2022
If you’ve ever had one of those days when nothing goes right, it can be hard to feel good about anything. One thing that might help is to go outside, sit near a tree and try this exercise. If it’s rainy, windy or cold, stay inside and look at a tree through a window. Watch
Posted: March 10, 2022
Lots of you may have played the game Tag, You’re It. Maybe it had a different title when you played it. There was a base that made you free from capture if you could reach it. The person who was “It” stood by that base and counted to whatever number was agreed upon by the
Posted: February 5, 2022
Here’s an activity for a quiet day in your yard. It’s for a day when you don’t feel like being really active. Maybe you don’t feel well, but you don’t want to stay inside. Or maybe you would like to use your imagination. If you have trees in your yard, choose one of
Posted: January 6, 2022
All of us have an important connection to forests. Knowing that connection helps us to understand how essential forests are to sustaining human life. An excellent documentary, “Call of the Forest – the Forgotten Wisdom of Trees,” helps us to understand that connection. The film follows scientist and author Diana Beresford-Kroeger as she explores the
Posted: December 21, 2021
I have been learning about an amazing woman named Diana Beresford-Kroeger. She was born in England in 1944. Her father was British, and her mother was Irish. She eventually wrote a book about her life. Published in 2019 by Random House Canada, the book is called To Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey from
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