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Big Changes for Big Trees
: The National Register of Big Trees has some surprises this year
by Whit Bronaugh, Spring 2010


The Trees that miss the Mammoths
by Whit Bronaugh, Winter 2010

"Would you evolve energetically expensive fruit if gravity and water are your only dispersers?
Not unless you expected to be eaten by mammoths or ground-sloths"

"Warning: Reading this article may cause a...paradigm shift. You will no longer view wild area the same way. Your concepts of "pristine wilderness" and "the balance of nature" will be forever compromised... Consider the fruit of the Osage-orange..."

"We live on a continent of ghosts, their prehistoric presence hinted at by sweet-tasting pods of mesquite, honey locust, and monkey ear." -Paul Martin