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Andrew Joslin recently commented on the Disneyification of nature:
Yep nature metaphors are a double edged sword, you want to be able to communicate to a wide audience. At the same time the power of the metaphor can be diluted or co-opted/redirected by commercial/marketing forces. I guess that's why I think forest and nature metaphors/myths
need to be reinvented and reinvigorated to stay ahead of
"disneyification". (November 16, 2009).

Certainly how nature is portrayed in the popular media infl… Continue

Marion Brooks NA is the kind of place where when you pull into the parking lot, you say “Wow!” In front of you as far as you can see are bouquet-like sprays of white paper birch trees rising above the snow covered forest floor. At first glance the paper birch trees are all that you se… Continue

James Parton sent me of those circulating emails with images of fall maple leaves being made into faux roses. I tracked a source down and here it is:

http://haha.nu/creative/how-to-make-roses-from-maple-le… Continue

My friend Dale Luthringer recently published to the ENTS discussion list a Rucker Index for the Clarion River corridor in PA. A Rucker Index is the average of the heights of the tallest tree for each of the ten tallest species in area. Most of the numbers were from the flood plain are… Continue

People, We are often faced with the question of what makes this patch of forest "significant' or mundane. Much of the focus of my Eastern Native Tree Society group is on large trees. but that is not the only factor we consider. What might these other criteria be that makes a patch of forest… Continue