Field notes on trees, fungi, and forest health from the Sierra Nevada foothills.
A historic El Niño is forecast for this winter. Four ways storms bring trees down: decay, saturated soil, heavy wet snow, and weak structure.
Read More: How Will El Niño Affect My Trees? →
When asphalt is hot enough to fry an egg, how does a tree stand in full sun all day? Many make an invisible gas, and oaks are champions at it.
Read More: How Trees Survive Triple Digit Heat: Isoprene →
The disease that killed millions of coastal oaks, why the Sierra foothills have largely escaped it, and what is actually behind oak decline here.
Read More: Sudden Oak Death in California: What It Is, and Where It Actually Occurs →
The hidden world of the Hidden Pore Fungus
Read More: Unveiling the hidden world of Cryptoporus volvatus →
How are morels and trees linked.. it's complicated
Read More: Morels: The Sierra Nevada's Most Elusive Mushroom and Why Forest Management Matters More Than Fire →
Dull orange Omphalotus olivascens fruiting from the base of an Interior Live Oak in El Dorado County.
Read More: Bioluminescent Mushrooms in the Sierra Nevada Foothills that may harm your tree →
A peach tree suffering from peach leaf curl
Read More: Late Fall Early Winter El Dorado County Peach Leaf Curl Treatment →
Armillaria fruiting from the base of an Oak
Read More: Top 3 Mushroom Species on Oak trees in El Dorado County →
Biodiversity meets biodiversity
Read More: Invasive Ambrosia Beetles cultivate fungi and fear among arborists →
Hug your favorite holobiont
Unique approaches to age old issues
Read More: Science meets Trees →