Sounds like a nice tour of the NW, Daniel.
Those foresters are picky about knowing the source of the seed. They want to be sure the genetic material doesn't get contaminated by an unknown species.
Harvesting occurs during fire season, so explosives are out.
Here's a cropped shot off the original. There is a vertical line running up the back of the wheelbarrow beds, but it's too faint to make out what the material is.
BTW, the trees are Ponderosa Pine.
The International competition Jim won was in Canada, at Halifax in '94. Coincidentally, we both lived in the same town, Grants Pass in Oregon. On Sundays he used to set up monster rope swings for my kids, and all the kids in town, in the city park.
Jim & I played a practical joke on Jason...
There is a 1980 book by Davis & Holderman called "The White Redwoods, Ghosts of thye Forest".
Jepson's 1910 book, "The Silva of California" notes a study that shows there are many stomata on the upper surface of albino redwood leaves. The palisade parenchyma is absent from the leaves.
One time at the coffee shop I was given the wrong address by the boss at our morning meeting. I went to the house and fell the dying Oak tree in the front yard. As the tree was just starting to fall, the lady drove up, wailing, "Oh no, you were supposed to try and save it!". Later, I could hear...
New Treebuzz category
Well Tim, it looks like advocacy should be a new category of topic on the Buzz. Kinda like the TREE Fund, the arborists favorite charity. Saving trees that have been condemned due to their negative perceived qualities having been deemed more important than the beneficial...