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Stumpage is the price a private firm pays for the right to harvest timber from a given land base. It is paid to the current owner of the land. Historically, the price was determined on a basis of the number of trees harvested, or "per stump". Currently it is dictated by more standard measurements such as cubic metres, board feet, or tons. To ...
A family in San Carlos, California, is facing an impossible decision: spend more than $40,000 to remove a nearly 500-year-old heritage white oak tree in their backyard or find new homeowners ...
Quercus alba, the white oak, is one of the preeminent hardwoods of eastern and central North America. It is a long-lived oak , native to eastern and central North America and found from Minnesota , Ontario , Quebec , and southern Maine south as far as northern Florida and eastern Texas . [ 3 ]
Quercus agrifolia, the California live oak, [3] or coast live oak, is an evergreen [4] live oak native to the California Floristic Province.Live oaks are so-called because they keep living leaves on the tree all year, adding young leaves and shedding dead leaves simultaneously rather than dropping dead leaves en masse in the autumn like a true deciduous tree. [5]
The Oaks 2040 survey estimates that 750,000 acres (3,000 km 2) of California oak woodlands are seriously threatened by 2040 as a burgeoning state population makes ever more use of the wildland. [12] This comprehensive survey includes oak woodland maps and inventory data for the ten oak types found in California.
California's oldest tree, a Palmer's oak thought to be 13,000 to 18,000 years old, may be threatened by a proposed development, environmentalists say. ... walks near the Palmer's oak. The tree is ...
Tree City USA sign in Wakefield, Massachusetts. There are more than 3,400 Tree Cities USA. The following is a partial listing of Tree Cities USA. [1] To be a Tree City, the community must meet four standards set by the National Arbor Day Foundation and the National Association of State Foresters:
An Inland Empire city has approved a development project within 450 feet of the third oldest known living organism in the world — a sprawling, shrub-like oak tree that is more than 13,000 years old.