They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration – Emergence Magazine
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They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration – Emergence Magazine
Have you ever seen a redwood tree? They're majestic and towering - scraping the sky while standing shoulder to shoulder with fellow redwoods in what feels like impossibly close quarters.
They can become so tall that their circulatory system can't pump water to the whole tree, so their upper needles have adapted to drink fog right out of the sky.
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They can become so tall that their circulatory system can't pump water to the whole tree, so their upper needles have adapted to drink fog right out of the sky.
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Michele Hornish • Why I'm Thinking About Trees This Morning
the most vulnerable trees will need to move much faster, to keep from burning up. They can’t cross highways or farms or housing developments. Maybe we can help them.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Ecological Belonging
ecological-belonging.orgTrees have only two strategies to survive this roller coaster. First, most can survive in a wide range of climates. You can find beeches from Sicily to southern Sweden and birches from Lapland to Spain. Second, the genetic bandwidth within a species is very wide, so in a forest you can always find individual trees that can deal with the new conditi
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