Aerial photo

Losing woodland pastures

The Lexington Herald-Leader published this aerial photograph of the future Fayette Mall in 1967. The photo clearly shows and extensive woodland pasture, with a mix of large, old trees and smaller hedgerow trees. Today, only a single tree, the Tiverton Oak, remains of this woodland pasture. Fayette County has lost a tremendous number of trees […]

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World Tree Story by Julian Hight

We need more great books about trees, don’t we?  Here is your chance to help a fine author and passionate tree person to publish his next book, World Tree Story. Julian Hight is an author, designer, photographer and musician. His very fine book Britain’s Tree Story has a prominent place on my bookshelf. In that book, he […]