TreeNote
TreeNote is a two minute weekly feature from renowned ecologist Dr. Nalini Nadkarni and KUER.
Episode List
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I recently visited some friends who built a lovely wooden home at the edge of a forest glade.
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My favorite Beatle is Ringo. As a tree-lover, I've long wondered which wood this famous drummer chose for his drumsticks and what other percussionists use.
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We know that when it comes to people, unassuming doesn’t mean uninteresting. The same holds true for trees.
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I'm the third of five kids, so I've always been the one in the middle.
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I’ve often been called a tree-hugger. But I know that getting anywhere near the poisonous Manchineel tree is a very bad idea.
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We’ve all seen beautiful pieces of wood crafted by sculptors into artistic shapes. But have you ever heard of arborsculpture?
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I think of sawdust as a by-product of woodworking, kind of a nuisance that I have to sweep up and dispose of after a session in the woodshop.
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The messiest laboratory I have ever seen is the prep room of the Center for Tree-Ring Science at Missouri University.
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Our country has over 150 million telephone poles — that's half a pole for every person!