ghostsofevolution | Climate, Trees, and Legacy: 01 - Introduction @ghostsofevolution | Uploaded January 2014 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Connie Barlow introduces in January 2014 a learning and action series for helping trees adapt to climate change by humans engaging in helping native plants, especially trees, move poleward. This "assisted migration" in a time of unprecedented climate shift will be increasingly necessary in the decades ahead.
Foresters can create the maps to show us where species will need to move to. But we citizen naturalists will play a complementary role in ensuring that the full diversity of genotypes keeps pace with a warming and drying continent. The series host, Connie Barlow, is the founder of the citizen activist group Torreya Guardians. She is the author of "The Ghosts of Evolution."
As of 2022, there are a total of 37 videos, listed and linked at: thegreatstory.org/climate-trees-legacy.html
Species in the series include Coast Redwood, Giant Sequoia, various species of conifers native to the Rocky Mountains, Joshua Tree, Alligator Juniper, Arizona Cypress, oaks of eastern North America, and native yews.
In this introductory video, Connie emphasizes that "assisted migration" implemented by humans will mimic what birds, rodents, and other native seed dispersers have been able to accomplish on their own in previous periods of Earth history, when warming occurred at a slower, more natural pace.
Note: Three tree paintings by Illinois artist Mary Southard are included, as are several still shots from the 20th-century classic animated short film, "The Man Who Planted Trees."
Learn more about assisted migration: (2-min video) youtu.be/uz_pN3lvh7I and annotated list of articles torreyaguardians.org/assisted-migration.html
Learn more about the work of Torreya Guardians: (75-min video) youtu.be/N_9SCSB5wfM and website torreyaguardians.org
Learn more about "The Ghosts of Evolution" (5-min music video): youtu.be/A-kYjjphxJY
Click blue timecodes to advance to TOPICS in this video:
00:01 Climate adaptation as well as mitigation; role of citizen action
02:30 50th anniversary of The Wilderness Act in 2014
03:23 Reservation, Restoration, Resilience, and Reconciliation Ecology
03:58 The Great March for Climate Action in 2014 (L.A. to D.C.)
06:12 Climate, Trees, and Legacy - citizens can help trees move north
08:27 Exploring the questions for this entire series
09:06 QUESTION 1: How will trees move north as climate shifts?
14:23 Founding of Torreya Guardians and first action of assisted migration
16:21 Florida Torreya, a "glacial relict", was already lagging in moving north
19:22 Even common tree species will need help moving north
21:44 Book by Hazel Delcourt, "Forests in Peril," 2002, motivated Connie
25:20 Connie remembers her mother's stories of the Depression
27:08 "Leaf a Legacy" as Connie's volunteer project from 2014 onward
28:06 People who "wake up" to climate change want to be in action
28:44 Planting a tree can be a mythic action: possibility of long legacy
30:43 QUESTION 1 (in detail): Assist the animals who disperse tree seeds?
33:09 QUESTION 2: Will forest fires in arid west defeat assisted migration?
37:06 QUESTION 3: How will trees move into and through wilderness areas?
39:44 Homework: What do trees mean to you? (Reflect on your life stages.)
CLIMATE, TREES, AND LEGACY full set of species-specific videos:
1. Introduction - youtu.be/uPYDDsGaktk
2. Torrey Pine - youtu.be/6MQ9smQyJ5k
3. Joshua Tree - youtu.be/fZD8IlT8KU8
4. Arizona Cypress - youtu.be/vW_Zaowal8k
5. Rocky Mountain Trees - youtu.be/H1_usZ9E3d8
6. Becoming Passenger Pigeon - youtu.be/uPYDDsGaktk
7. Alligator Juniper Assisted Range Expansion - youtu.be/Kbyx2eKUv-Y
8. Foresters Outpace Conservation Biologists in Climate Adaptation - youtu.be/dLXmxcIZ4bY
9. California Redwoods Thrive in Pacific Northwest - youtu.be/RU6cjjGVZiI
Note: Some of those tree-specific episodes have as many a 9 distinct videos exploring the topic of "assisted migration" of native trees in North America. For the full annotated list, visit this webpage by Connie Barlow: thegreatstory.org/climate-trees-legacy.html
Connie Barlow introduces in January 2014 a learning and action series for helping trees adapt to climate change by humans engaging in helping native plants, especially trees, move poleward. This "assisted migration" in a time of unprecedented climate shift will be increasingly necessary in the decades ahead.
Foresters can create the maps to show us where species will need to move to. But we citizen naturalists will play a complementary role in ensuring that the full diversity of genotypes keeps pace with a warming and drying continent. The series host, Connie Barlow, is the founder of the citizen activist group Torreya Guardians. She is the author of "The Ghosts of Evolution."
As of 2022, there are a total of 37 videos, listed and linked at: thegreatstory.org/climate-trees-legacy.html
Species in the series include Coast Redwood, Giant Sequoia, various species of conifers native to the Rocky Mountains, Joshua Tree, Alligator Juniper, Arizona Cypress, oaks of eastern North America, and native yews.
In this introductory video, Connie emphasizes that "assisted migration" implemented by humans will mimic what birds, rodents, and other native seed dispersers have been able to accomplish on their own in previous periods of Earth history, when warming occurred at a slower, more natural pace.
Note: Three tree paintings by Illinois artist Mary Southard are included, as are several still shots from the 20th-century classic animated short film, "The Man Who Planted Trees."
Learn more about assisted migration: (2-min video) youtu.be/uz_pN3lvh7I and annotated list of articles torreyaguardians.org/assisted-migration.html
Learn more about the work of Torreya Guardians: (75-min video) youtu.be/N_9SCSB5wfM and website torreyaguardians.org
Learn more about "The Ghosts of Evolution" (5-min music video): youtu.be/A-kYjjphxJY
Click blue timecodes to advance to TOPICS in this video:
00:01 Climate adaptation as well as mitigation; role of citizen action
02:30 50th anniversary of The Wilderness Act in 2014
03:23 Reservation, Restoration, Resilience, and Reconciliation Ecology
03:58 The Great March for Climate Action in 2014 (L.A. to D.C.)
06:12 Climate, Trees, and Legacy - citizens can help trees move north
08:27 Exploring the questions for this entire series
09:06 QUESTION 1: How will trees move north as climate shifts?
14:23 Founding of Torreya Guardians and first action of assisted migration
16:21 Florida Torreya, a "glacial relict", was already lagging in moving north
19:22 Even common tree species will need help moving north
21:44 Book by Hazel Delcourt, "Forests in Peril," 2002, motivated Connie
25:20 Connie remembers her mother's stories of the Depression
27:08 "Leaf a Legacy" as Connie's volunteer project from 2014 onward
28:06 People who "wake up" to climate change want to be in action
28:44 Planting a tree can be a mythic action: possibility of long legacy
30:43 QUESTION 1 (in detail): Assist the animals who disperse tree seeds?
33:09 QUESTION 2: Will forest fires in arid west defeat assisted migration?
37:06 QUESTION 3: How will trees move into and through wilderness areas?
39:44 Homework: What do trees mean to you? (Reflect on your life stages.)
CLIMATE, TREES, AND LEGACY full set of species-specific videos:
1. Introduction - youtu.be/uPYDDsGaktk
2. Torrey Pine - youtu.be/6MQ9smQyJ5k
3. Joshua Tree - youtu.be/fZD8IlT8KU8
4. Arizona Cypress - youtu.be/vW_Zaowal8k
5. Rocky Mountain Trees - youtu.be/H1_usZ9E3d8
6. Becoming Passenger Pigeon - youtu.be/uPYDDsGaktk
7. Alligator Juniper Assisted Range Expansion - youtu.be/Kbyx2eKUv-Y
8. Foresters Outpace Conservation Biologists in Climate Adaptation - youtu.be/dLXmxcIZ4bY
9. California Redwoods Thrive in Pacific Northwest - youtu.be/RU6cjjGVZiI
Note: Some of those tree-specific episodes have as many a 9 distinct videos exploring the topic of "assisted migration" of native trees in North America. For the full annotated list, visit this webpage by Connie Barlow: thegreatstory.org/climate-trees-legacy.html
