I'd known about the chestnut blight before, but in researching it for this book, it was just horrendous: 25 percent of the biomass of eastern North America dying in the space of a decade. One particular issue is the trade in timber carrying diseases from one country to another. "I think we do have a situation where the world's trees and forests face all sorts of dangers, and a greater awareness of trees could be very important.
Kingsbury said he hopes people come away from his book with a greater interest in protecting and preserving trees. Some of them are configuration files, project data, logs or other output data generated by Metasequoia. Hanami celebrates natural beauty, Kingsbury writes, and it offers a bittersweet chance to reflect on how fleeting that beauty can be. The Metasequoia program works with many file extensions by default. It is the biggest, strongest, straightest tree for many days of travel, a Sichuan villager told a visitor in March 1948. Kingsbury writes of the Japanese tradition of Hanami, or cherry blossom viewing, when people picnic under the flowering trees. At an average 100 feet high, Metasequoia is imposing next to the chestnut, oak, and maple trees with which it was found to coexist in China. Some cultures do tend to pay more attention to their trees than others. (It's worth noting, however, that American plant breeders have been working to develop disease-resistant elm hybrids for U.S. "Sadly, the spread of disease has meant that the American elm now seems to be something of a tree of the past," Kingsbury writes. A shipment of infected timber had been imported from France, Kingsbury writes. But then disaster struck, in the form of Dutch elm disease. Native Americans often used the American elm as a council tree, William Penn signed a peace treaty under one in the 1600s, and a famous one in Boston became the rebellious colonists' "Liberty Tree." The nation had an estimated 25 million American elms in the 1930s, including 600,000 in Minneapolis and 150,000 in Dallas, Kingsbury writes. "Few trees have played such a part in the shaping of urban environments or have had such a symbolic role in the history of a nation," Kingsbury writes. We need to take more notice of them."Įxhibit A might be the lovely American elm, which once presided over so many small-town streets. "We kind of take them for granted, and it's only when they get blown down in a storm or get hit by a disease that people really wake up.
"Trees are a bit like a lot of things in the landscape," Kingsbury said. Jones, a photographer who is as adept at capturing the majesty of an ancient oak and the wonder of a single seed pod, brings her subjects to life in hundreds of color photos.
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