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Oak Watch: October 2014
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Monday, October 27, 2014. The Best Laid Plans. When a bur oak ( Quercus macrocarpa. Tree estimated to be as much as 250 years old stood in the way of construction of a new building at the University of Michigan, officials laudably decided to move it rather than chop it down. Estimated cost: $400,000. Their elaborate plan for moving the 700,000 lb behemoth included a spiffy computer animation. So you know it's going to work, right? Stay tuned to for updates. Christian E. Siems. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Oak Watch: September 2013
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013. While traveling on business in California over the last twenty years, and even more so since I moved to California just over 2 years ago, I have marveled at the way California oaks cling so tenaciously to life, even after losing huge chunks of crown to lightening, wind and decay. One tree I have been watching for several years might have finally given up the ghost and gotten out of the proverbial canoe. It's a valley/California white ( Quercus lobata. Christian E. Siems.
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Oak Watch: The Massive Oaks of Costa Rica
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Friday, April 25, 2014. The Massive Oaks of Costa Rica. I am ambivalent about Eco-tourism. I get the idea of creating economic value for ecosystems as ecosystems and not as natural resources/commodities. It might, in the end, be the only way to conserve them within the economic realities of the world. But I have a problem with consuming fossil fuels to go see natural wonders which are threatened/damaged by the consumption of fossil fuels. But man, I'd love to go to Costa Rica and see these trees. Red Tra...
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Oak Watch: White Oak Wedding
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014. I was lucky enough to be married about 10 miles from Homer, Alaska on the shore of a gorgeous little lake with a cow moose and her twins grazing peacefully on the opposite shore. The wedding was attended by five other people (including the minister), two of whom we had known for more than one day. I didn't think I'd ever be jealous of someone else's wedding setting. I was wrong. Getting married beneath an oak of that size and age would be spectacular. Christian E. Siems.
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Oak Watch: November 2013
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Monday, November 25, 2013. Slow Growing Oaks #782: 6 inches of growth, but per year or per week? A friend sent a link to this informational piece on swamp chestnut oak. Tons of great information about a very cool tree, and further proof that hunters are light years ahead of the landscape nursery industry in terms of planting trees that matter. Two items in this piece caught my attention:. Turns out they are. To varying degrees. Along with just about every other tree in the forest. So what have we...2) Th...
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Oak Watch: October 2013
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Monday, October 14, 2013. An acorn filled weekend. My sons definitely out-acorned me this weekend, I'm embarrassed to say. Of opposing players' pencils on their score sheets reaches a crescendo. I scored a big fat zero. My son wrote Acorn. I immediately awarded him double points. And stabbed myself with my Bic pen for being such a moron. The next day we were working on his book report on Mortal Engines. Gathering a cap full of massive valley oak ( Q. lobata). How cool is that? Christian E. Siems. Subscri...
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Oak Watch: A day no oak lover can afford to miss...
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Thursday, May 29, 2014. A day no oak lover can afford to miss. Except I will have to miss it. And it's killing me. The International Oak Society is holding an Oak Day in Mississippi hosted by Dudley Phelps, nursery manager for Mossy Oak's Nativ Nurseries. Click here to learn more. As in, who wouldn't. Have won that many championships with Bill Walton, Lew Alcindor and the other amazing players he coached? Chicken, egg, who cares? Fact is Wooden both got the players and. This is a white x overcup oak hybr...
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Oak Watch: August 2013
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Thursday, August 29, 2013. Slow growing" oaks #863. I'm going to go all Jackie Gleason. On the next person I hear say that oaks are slow growing. Take a look at this. Keep in mind this is from a discussion board and web site dedicated to deer hunting and creating deer habitat, and you have guys waxing rhapsodic about the growth rate of their oaks (more about Concordia oaks coming soon) and talking about cutting scion wood for grafting. I love it! So to beat my two favorite dead horses yet again. Here's a...
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Agroforestry and Woodland Products - The Ethnobotany Of Appalachia
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Oak Watch: September 2014
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014. I was lucky enough to be married about 10 miles from Homer, Alaska on the shore of a gorgeous little lake with a cow moose and her twins grazing peacefully on the opposite shore. The wedding was attended by five other people (including the minister), two of whom we had known for more than one day. I didn't think I'd ever be jealous of someone else's wedding setting. I was wrong. Getting married beneath an oak of that size and age would be spectacular. Christian E. Siems.
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