Nicole Hynson normally gets roped in to help when all else fails. The conservation biologist from the University of Hawaii is involved in bringing back all kinds of critically endangered plants from the brink of extinction. Unfortunately, she’s kept busy in her home state, Hawaii, which is also known as the extinction capital of the […]
Photographs selected by Quentin Nardi Text by Tracy Scott Forson Poet Joyce Kilmer wrote, “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” They provide wood, flowers, shade, fruit, nuts and, most importantly, oxygen. Besides what they supply for humans, trees are just beautiful to behold. With their outstretched branches, long […]
Necks arched backward, John O’Keefe and Greta VanScoy eye the upper branches of a black gum tree in the middle of Massachusetts. All around them, acorns pinball to the forest floor as leaves rustle in the mid-September wind. This susurration invites the kind of abstract thought that so often accompanies walks in the woods. But […]
