~Walt Whitman, from “Song of the Redwood-Tree,” c.1874 Too much cannot be said of the usefulness of this reserve on the side of just beauty—for beauty is useful beyond belief. We need these "beauty reserves" in our lives, our State, our country. Beautiful forms and colors awaken t...
Cumulative ring areas indicated by colors are directly proportional to trunk wood volume increments over 11 years, centered on fire year. Blue arrows show observed heights of tree-ring indicators (i.e., intra-annual density fluctuations, faint latewood, resin) during fire year. Tree name on ...