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Today, August 9th, @Smokey_Bear turns 80.
Even though we're celebrating all year long, here's a special happy birthday to Smokey direct from Xochitl Torres Small, Deputy Secretary of the @USDA.
Happy birthday Smokey!
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Big-cone pine (Pinus coulteri) produces the world's largest pine cones by mass, reported to reach up to half a metre in length, and weigh 5kg. Wow.
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Want to know about wildfire? Join Forest Service scientists and others for another season of Forestcast, which will focus all episodes on wildfires. Search “Forestcast” wherever you get your podcasts.
Here is the R&D page link for already aired episodes: fs.usda.gov/research/product…
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Ever heard of a cuckoo tree? It's the term given when one tree grows out of another, in this case a holly growing out of a yew tree. Weird eh! 🤔 #cuckootree
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An Upside-Down Fig Tree that grows from the ceiling of an ancient Roman ruin in Bacoli, Italy - Archaeological Park of Baiae.
The tree sprouts from the ceiling of the arch it grows inside, which was allegedly part of the Emperor Nero's private villa.
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The Signing Oak - Windsor Great Park, England 🌳
Approximately 900 years old
Photo: Jeroen Philippona
#trees
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Keep an eye on the tree trunks as we're entering in to the secondary growth and thickening phase of a trees growth season
The tree now grows outward, putting on its growth ring for the year
But you see cool stuff like this bark lifting!
#SecondaryThickening #ThickTrunkTuesday
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Take a gander at this informative brochure and learn about services that arborists provide, criteria for selecting an arborist, and the benefits of hiring an ISA Certified Arborist®. treesaregood.org/treeowner/w…
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Lovely 'clean-air' lichens covering the trees in South Dartmoor. I'm no expert but this looks like Usnea articulata, the String of Sausage lichen @hotchkissaj ?
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If you can’t take the #heat, get under the canopy! #DYK that neighbourhoods with 40% canopy cover experience daytime temps up to 5°C cooler than areas with less #tree density? #Forests fight #climatechange AND they mitigate its effects, like #extremeheat.
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Wood opal is a form of petrified wood which has developed an opalescent sheen or, more rarely, where the wood has been completely replaced by opal. This is a cross-section of a petrified tree in the Petrified Forest National Park, northeast Arizona ow.ly/jFnR50xKy7g
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We're thrilled finally to be able to share our campaign video! Designers, developers, and knowledge partners are all in place, and we're now working hard to take the project to its next stage. Please join our journey! #thefuturewewant #cocreate #greencities #climateaction
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The trees are about to perform one of nature’s greatest magic tricks 🪄🥳 So as we bid winter goodbye, here are my favourite twigs & buds from February. They’re living jewels, don’t you think?
