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Go see a champion: take a road trip to seek out the biggest trees in the nation!
In the process of seeking out some 200 national champion trees to photograph, write about, appreciate, and sometimes nominate, I have had my share...
American Forests, 06/22/09 by Whit Bronaugh · More from publication -
Big changes for big trees: deaths, growth spurts, and a new list-altering rule. It's our biennial check on the state of our nation's biggest trees
If you hoped to see your name in the National Register of Big Trees again for that really big tree you measured a while back you're likely to be...
American Forests, 03/22/08 by Whit Bronaugh · More from publication -
A day in the life of General Sherman: our intrepid reporter gets up close and personal with this long-time champ and perennial favorite big tree
Big trees. You can measure them, pore over their statistics; compare their age to human history; draw, paint, photograph or rhapsodize about them;...
American Forests, 03/22/08 by Whit Bronaugh · More from publication -
The age of Pinus: all that's fit to print about what has been called the world's "most ecologically and economically significant tree genus."
Much of human history and prehistory is divided up into ages according to some great influence of the time: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Age...
American Forests, 03/22/08 by Whit Bronaugh · More from publication -
Looking for Georgia's lost Franklinia: could he find this small, showy tree not seen in the wild for more than 200 years?
In the muggy midday heat of southeastern Georgia, my body begs me to heed the wisdom of birds and beasts whose activity punctuates the cooler hours...
American Forests, 01/01/08 by Whit Bronaugh · More from publication -
Championing changes in the forest
To build on an idea by zoologist and author Richard Dawkins, imagine bringing all your direct female ancestors back to life. Line them up starting...
American Forests, 03/22/06 by Whit Bronaugh · More from publication -
Empty thrones: somewhere out there royalty is just waiting to be recognized. Long live the king—wherever it is
They are out there. Some may live their entire lives without ever being seen by human eyes. Others may live among us, seen by thousands yet...
American Forests, 03/22/06 by Whit Bronaugh · More from publication -
New champs in height and breath: General Sherman gets smaller, mega-trees switch places, people are one with trees. Read on for the latest from the world of really big trees
You are a big tree. Well, part of you is anyway. No, really. This is not some flaky New Age crystal thing. This is science. Allow me to...
American Forests, 03/22/06 by Whit Bronaugh · More from publication -
In a state of superlatives; Big Tree Paradise has an address: go west; stop at the ocean
Imagine, for a moment, a paradise for big tree lovers. It would need a diverse and unique silva with many trees found nowhere else in the world....
American Forests, 01/01/05 by Whit Bronaugh · More from publication -
From little acorns champion oaks grow: a journey through the life of one of America's most prolific trees
Several hundred years ago, deep in the ancient virgin forests of the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, an eastern gray squirrel forgot where he...
American Forests, 03/22/04 by Whit Bronaugh · More from publication
