Thank you
Citizen Scientists
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Thank you to those of you that are continuing to collect data on the trees at Mt. Tabor. I am checking the GLOBE Program from our project's perspective and there are 15 people who have used the Project ID - GLIDGT2N.
Remember to add that when you log in, in the settings box, join the Team and I can collective analyze our data as we go along. Also add comments in the comment box on your phone which I will also see. Things like bark, raining, flowers, seeds, squirrels, owls, mushrooms, etc. We are collecting tree and all ecology information.
I've just written the Field Report No. 2 for our Fall training and hike sessions. You can find it on my website as well as on Academia.edu. Here are the links:
https://blackcoyotemedicine.org/2021/11/22/field-report-no-2-tabor-tree-project-nov-2021/
https://www.academia.edu/62189973/Field_Report_No_2_Tabor_Tree_Project
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Need Help with the GLOBE Observer app? Don't know where to start? Need some ideas?
You can send me an email, photos, questions, keep in touch. I'm here to help you. Candace
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Remember iNaturalist app can be very useful when you find things like the oyster mushroom that was on the Rowan (Mountain Ash) tree, or the moths and butterflies which tell us alot about the health of the trees and their allies.
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Osculation : the act of kissing also : kiss.
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A Douglas Fir and a Big Leaf Maple, make a decision, they meet in the roots, and osculate, a small kiss, and join their stems, their stem cells become something new and unique as each tree is different and each pair is uniquely now different than its solo species standing next to it. Why? is that the question? or Why Not?
and How? If we listen, we watch, are patient enough over time, we can see. Let these wisdom keepers be your light.
"Usually inosculation happens between two trees of the same species but, judging from the bark patterns, your trees are two entirely different species. And, indeed, the root word (no pun intended) is 'to osculate' which means 'to kiss."
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In a letter I wrote to the author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben, asking about Osculation, and how a deciduous and confier, so unlikely of a pair, have joined together in this Tabor forest everywhere.
Here is their reply:
Dear Candace,
Thank you so much for your beautiful message. It's great to read about your deep connection to nature and that you pass this on to other people through your tours. It is very impressive how you describe that one can only really experience nature when one sees oneself as part of it.
As far as the growing together of trees is concerned, it can certainly be as you describe it. However, the current state of science is that trees of different species grow together or into each other to overcome the "obstacle" and create better living conditions for themselves, for example more sunlight. Trees of the same species can actually grow together in such a way that they share water conduit pathways and thus assist each other in supplying water.
From our point of view, this is also understandable, since tree species have developed quite differently in the course of evolution. This applies not only to deciduous trees and conifers, but also to different deciduous trees. For example, oaks and beeches are genetically related to each other only as far as we humans are related to goldfish. Therefore, from our point of view, a fusion is hardly possible. But of course the trees still have many surprises in store and it remains exciting in the forest.
Best wishes to Oregon and all the best for you
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