ROBERTS BLOG
All About Trees
“If the forest should disappear, civilization would become extinguished on earth. It is the duty of an enlightened community to plant trees, and to so care for them that posterity shall not suffer… ”
Joseph Decaisne (1873). French botanist
I was lucky enough to be at this year’s International Tree Climbing Competition (ITCC) and witness team NZ win again. Even though I have seen it...
3327 words later it ends like this. It’s not so much that I don’t believe in the urban forest – it exists, it is there, I just think we are looking...
Not being afraid to throw the proverbial cat at the pigeons, I have proposed a paper for the 2nd Asia Pacific Urban Forestry Meeting on why urban...
The management of ancient and veteran trees has become very topical and this is not necessarily a bad thing. Managing venerable old trees...
There comes a point where you start to assume others know what you know. Not in a paranoid ‘they’re in my head’ kind of way, but simply because you...
We have known for many years that trees communicate with each other, that their responses to insect and/or animal attack can be picked up by other...
The Redwoods of Rotorua in New Zealand are arguably the most substantial and therefore the most important stand of Redwood trees outside of those on...
Star Wars has microscopic, intelligent lifeforms called midi-chlorians that live within the cells of all living beings. That’s science-fiction....
A quick Google search will tell you that an ’act of God’ is an event outside human control, an event where no one can be held responsible. It’s an...
Recently I gave a presentation at the New Zealand Arboricultural Association conference, I pointed out that stress is an external force or an...
There is a quote that goes something like, ‘You become responsible forever for what you've tamed’. It comes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery children’s...
I have a theory that trees can’t read. My theory is based in part because I’ve never seen a tree purchase a book and in part because trees don’t...
