ghostsofevolution | Site Visits to Florida's Endangered Torreya and Yew Trees @ghostsofevolution | Uploaded January 2016 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Connie Barlow narrates. Advance to topics by clicking on timecodes:
00:03 - Torreya State Park setting and map of Apalachicola River
00:42 - Site guide Connie Barlow has made 5 visits from 1999 – 2014
02:00 - Barlow's affiliation with Torreya Guardians "assisted migration" project
02:26 - Endangered status of Florida Torreya; vulnerable status of Florida Yew
03:01 - Torreya State Park sign on the discovery of Torreya taxifolia
03:34 - California's "Torrey Pine" (Pinus torreyana) is often confused with FL Torreya
04:07 - There are 4 sister species of genus Torreya in Asia and California
04:38 - Photos of California Torreya from Barlow's site visit in 2005
07:05 - Florida's Torreya is unique in being attacked by a host of native pathogens
07:56 - Tended plantings of Torreya on the lawn of ranger station at Torreya Park
09:45 - 3 seeds still on the tallest female in December 2014
12:54 - "River Bluff Trail" sign and setting along the Apalachicola River
13:35 - Begin walking the trail; a caged restoration planting is spotted in wild forest
14:07 - Overview of the forest trees and shrubs along the Apalachicola River
18:57 - Magnolias as ancient hardwoods; Torreya and Yew are even older
19:40 - Needle Palm and Dwarf Palmetto mix with northern trees in the park
20:29 - Fred Bess (Torreya Guardian) is testing Torreya's winter hardiness in Ohio
21:52 - Fred is testing winter-hardiness in Ohio of both palm species of Apalachicola
23:09 - Finish overview of trees in Apalachicola (Bald Cypress, hardwoods, pine)
26:03 - Torreya specimen 1: in the drier upslope forest (near pine)
27:10 - Torreya specimen 1: lower bark stripped by deer, tips of basal sprouts are gone
28:31 - Torreya specimen 2: in steephead ravine (2007 and 2004 photos)
30:22 - Torreya specimen 2: 2014 video shows upper stems all dead; only basals alive
31:59 - Torreya specimen 2: Diseases on stem (canker) and browning branchlets (2004)
33:44 - Torreya specimen 3: 2014 video shows healthy wild tree in cage protection
35:24 - Torreya specimen 4: 2014 video shows healthiest, tallest tree (no cage)
38:34 - Florida yew specimen 1: photos 2004
39:45 - Florida yew specimen 2: photos 2004 (rosy smooth bark) + 2014 video
42:43 - Florida yew specimen 2: video of reproductive buds
43:07 - Red "berries" of European yew (all yews have similar berries)
43:40 - Torreya ripe "fruit" on a North Carolina tree, end of October 2013
43:49 - Range maps of 3 North American yews: Florida, Western, and Canadian
44:45 - Canadian Yew (Taxus canadensis) in wild Michigan forest (2015 video)
45:23 - Tour of Asian conifer genera used in landscaping that look like genus Torreya
45:53 - Asian Cephalotaxus (Plum Yew) - 2015 video in Dawes Arboretum, Ohio
46:58 - Asian Cephalotaxus planted in Fred Bess's yard in Cleveland (2014 video)
49:39 - Australian Wollemia rooted cutting in Fred Bess's greenhouse (2014 video)
50:29 - Asian Cunninghamia at Biltmore Gardens, NC (2015 video)
51:03 - Asian Cunninghamia at Fred Bess's in Ohio died in harsh winter (2014 video)
51:43 - Fred describes that Torreya survived "polar vortex" in Cleveland (2014 video)
53:05 - CONCLUDING SECTION: why "Torreya belongs in the north — not Florida"
54:02 - Paleoecology (deep time) shows Apalachicola habitat was "peak glacial refuge"
56:57 - Franklinia as another "left behind" relict in peak glacial refuge (extinct in wild)
57:49 - Franklinia in bloom; Fred Bess shows it in Ohio (2014 video)
59:02 - Hazel Delcourt's 2002 book, "Forests in Peril," motivated Torreya Guardians action
59:50 - Vegetation stress of climate change: 21st century will warm too rapidly
01:01:25 - Big-seeded trees lost their long-distance disperser: Passenger Pigeon
01:02:37 - Humans must "Become Passenger Pigeon" and help trees move north
01:02:51 - TorreyGuardians.org website (list of reports, information, and videos)
• Torreya Guardians video reports: http://www.torreyaguardians.org/video...
• "Climate, Trees, and Legacy" video series by Barlow: http://thegreatstory.org/climate-tree...
Two WIKIPEDIA pages put the citizen efforts of Torreya Guardians in context of the overall need for "assisted migration" poleward of native trees:
"Assisted Migration of Forests in North America" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration_of_forests_in_North_America
"Torreya Guardians" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torreya_Guardians
Connie Barlow narrates. Advance to topics by clicking on timecodes:
00:03 - Torreya State Park setting and map of Apalachicola River
00:42 - Site guide Connie Barlow has made 5 visits from 1999 – 2014
02:00 - Barlow's affiliation with Torreya Guardians "assisted migration" project
02:26 - Endangered status of Florida Torreya; vulnerable status of Florida Yew
03:01 - Torreya State Park sign on the discovery of Torreya taxifolia
03:34 - California's "Torrey Pine" (Pinus torreyana) is often confused with FL Torreya
04:07 - There are 4 sister species of genus Torreya in Asia and California
04:38 - Photos of California Torreya from Barlow's site visit in 2005
07:05 - Florida's Torreya is unique in being attacked by a host of native pathogens
07:56 - Tended plantings of Torreya on the lawn of ranger station at Torreya Park
09:45 - 3 seeds still on the tallest female in December 2014
12:54 - "River Bluff Trail" sign and setting along the Apalachicola River
13:35 - Begin walking the trail; a caged restoration planting is spotted in wild forest
14:07 - Overview of the forest trees and shrubs along the Apalachicola River
18:57 - Magnolias as ancient hardwoods; Torreya and Yew are even older
19:40 - Needle Palm and Dwarf Palmetto mix with northern trees in the park
20:29 - Fred Bess (Torreya Guardian) is testing Torreya's winter hardiness in Ohio
21:52 - Fred is testing winter-hardiness in Ohio of both palm species of Apalachicola
23:09 - Finish overview of trees in Apalachicola (Bald Cypress, hardwoods, pine)
26:03 - Torreya specimen 1: in the drier upslope forest (near pine)
27:10 - Torreya specimen 1: lower bark stripped by deer, tips of basal sprouts are gone
28:31 - Torreya specimen 2: in steephead ravine (2007 and 2004 photos)
30:22 - Torreya specimen 2: 2014 video shows upper stems all dead; only basals alive
31:59 - Torreya specimen 2: Diseases on stem (canker) and browning branchlets (2004)
33:44 - Torreya specimen 3: 2014 video shows healthy wild tree in cage protection
35:24 - Torreya specimen 4: 2014 video shows healthiest, tallest tree (no cage)
38:34 - Florida yew specimen 1: photos 2004
39:45 - Florida yew specimen 2: photos 2004 (rosy smooth bark) + 2014 video
42:43 - Florida yew specimen 2: video of reproductive buds
43:07 - Red "berries" of European yew (all yews have similar berries)
43:40 - Torreya ripe "fruit" on a North Carolina tree, end of October 2013
43:49 - Range maps of 3 North American yews: Florida, Western, and Canadian
44:45 - Canadian Yew (Taxus canadensis) in wild Michigan forest (2015 video)
45:23 - Tour of Asian conifer genera used in landscaping that look like genus Torreya
45:53 - Asian Cephalotaxus (Plum Yew) - 2015 video in Dawes Arboretum, Ohio
46:58 - Asian Cephalotaxus planted in Fred Bess's yard in Cleveland (2014 video)
49:39 - Australian Wollemia rooted cutting in Fred Bess's greenhouse (2014 video)
50:29 - Asian Cunninghamia at Biltmore Gardens, NC (2015 video)
51:03 - Asian Cunninghamia at Fred Bess's in Ohio died in harsh winter (2014 video)
51:43 - Fred describes that Torreya survived "polar vortex" in Cleveland (2014 video)
53:05 - CONCLUDING SECTION: why "Torreya belongs in the north — not Florida"
54:02 - Paleoecology (deep time) shows Apalachicola habitat was "peak glacial refuge"
56:57 - Franklinia as another "left behind" relict in peak glacial refuge (extinct in wild)
57:49 - Franklinia in bloom; Fred Bess shows it in Ohio (2014 video)
59:02 - Hazel Delcourt's 2002 book, "Forests in Peril," motivated Torreya Guardians action
59:50 - Vegetation stress of climate change: 21st century will warm too rapidly
01:01:25 - Big-seeded trees lost their long-distance disperser: Passenger Pigeon
01:02:37 - Humans must "Become Passenger Pigeon" and help trees move north
01:02:51 - TorreyGuardians.org website (list of reports, information, and videos)
• Torreya Guardians video reports: http://www.torreyaguardians.org/video...
• "Climate, Trees, and Legacy" video series by Barlow: http://thegreatstory.org/climate-tree...
Two WIKIPEDIA pages put the citizen efforts of Torreya Guardians in context of the overall need for "assisted migration" poleward of native trees:
"Assisted Migration of Forests in North America" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration_of_forests_in_North_America
"Torreya Guardians" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torreya_Guardians
