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MARCH 1, 2010
ABOUT
Festival of the Trees #45: Voice The Voltage Gate is a blog about ecology
and the creative process, a look at two
disciplines both in isolation and through the
lens of the other. Here you will find reviews
of current and foundational ecological
research, original illustrations as well as
commentary on environmentalism,
aesthetics and culture.
Heather is the artist on TVG. She is a painter
and illustrator whose work centers around
patterns, animals, color and science.
Jeremy writes about ecology, biogeography
and environmentalism. Occasionally he
posts flash fiction and commentary on
writing.
Jennifer writes about ecology, water issues,
caves, conservation, and pretty much
anything about that natural world that
catches her eye.
All original illustrations are © 2010 by
Heather Ravenscroft. Please ask permission
before use.
SCIENTOPIA
Neurotic Physiology
#scio11 Wrap Up: Explaining Science In
Blog Posts
4 hours ago
"...proud and hopeful by the side of the road, unaware of the strange shape it will take when branches
Professor in Training
interfere with wires…"
What’s making me laugh
-Jennifer Schlick of A Passion for Nature, "Branches" 6 hours ago
"The air smells sweet – sharp clean snow marked with the fragrance of cold pine, fir, hemlock oils, and Christina's LIS Rant
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morning chimney smoke. Trees hold fluffy handfuls of snow. On the days of deepest snow drifts, the
8 hours ago
youngest trees are bent completely to the ground and hidden under heavy white blankets which reach up
the trunks of larger trees and fold the whole winter world in around you." White Coat Underground
-Jade Blackwater of Aboreality, "In Praise of Winter: Snowy Evergreen Sunrises Introduction" (Parts 1, 2, Practice good medicine, go to jail
10 hours ago
3, 4)
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"The bird's nest, ferns and various orchid species are the most common of the epiphytes seen in the city
WhizBANG
of singapore."
What I Am Reading
-Arati of Trees, Plants and More, "Epiphytes" 13 hours ago
The Book of Trogool
"It was a wet spring: record-setting wet. The place had been abandoned for several months, and the Library Day in the Life 6
resulting wall of trees and vines and weeds that surrounded the house made the leaves a real in-your-face 15 hours ago
presence. Leathery oak leaves. Sandpapery elms. Frilly chinaberry. Cedar elms with foliage that reminds
DrugMonkey
me of cornflakes. All different, and all keys to identifying the tree."
Repost: Take the Money and Run
Joy K. of The Little House in the Not-So-Big Woods, "When the Leaves Are Gone" 15 hours ago
"[Sweetgum pods] remind me of mysterious southern nuts and seedpods encountered while out walking Candid Engineer in Academia
Blot blot, Western baby
the dog in Texas. In a stiff wind, heavy pods showered down around us like hail, while others scuttled after
20 hours ago
us along the sidewalk like misshapen bugs."
Melissa of Out walking the dog, "Seed Pods and Eyeballs" Prof-Like Substance
What can and can’t you expect from
your trainees?
"Sometimes there is a theme underneath the broader canopy of trees, but mostly,
1 day ago
anything tree like is accepted."
-Jasmine of Natures Whispers, "Bluebell Woods" Galactic Interactions
One-Slide Explanation of Tides
2 days ago
Chemical BiLOLogy
Family friendliness: NIH is listening!
3 days ago
"The Fig tree has enormous aboveground roots. It must be due to its age & I have This Scientific Life
never seen roots so high. The height of the roots gives me a strange, but wonderful feeling of entering the Salmon, scent and going home again
tree when I walk up close. It is like being embraced." 1 week ago
-Saving Our Trees, "St Stephen’s Fig"
Thus Spake Zuska
2011 St. K3rn Olympic Competition
"Pawpaw is the common name for plants in the genus Asimina, with several species native to eastern Heats Up Early!
North America. A. triloba has the most northern range by far of the genus, reaching into New York, and 1 week ago
even southern Ontario, and west to Nebraska. This wide range is attributed to cultivation and distribution
Good Math, Bad Math
by Native American people, including the Cherokee and Iroquois." Sarah Palin and the Blood Libel
-Xris of Flatbush Gardener, "Asimina triloba, PawPaw" 1 week ago
Child's Play
"Maple sugaring is simple. You wait until winter is beginning to slope off like a guest who stayed a bit
Bad Metaphors Make for Bad Theories
overtime." 4 weeks ago
-Diane Tucker of Hill-Stead's Nature Blog, "You Can’t Always Get What You Want"
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Students do the darndest things.
If you were living just across and if I were a tree
4 weeks ago
In that yard,
I’d delight you with fruit, The Urban Ethnographer
I’ll be watered with your glimpse, Closing Up Shop
1 month ago
just look at me in ardor,
I’d bear the sweetest fruit for you. The Questionable Authority
-Tatjana Debeljački, "A HOUSE MADE OF GLASS" The Latest WikiLeaks Thing
1 month ago
"A cluster of parchment fungi survive on a fallen tree trunk." Skulls in the Stars
-JSK of Anybody Seen My Focus?, "Campground – Dam Loop: Departing Scientopia…
Revisited" (Fort Yargo State Park) 3 months ago
Sanitized For Your Protection
The Passion of the Scientist
3 months ago
"I am kind of at a loss to explain how this happened… or why it took me so The Brain Confounds Everything
Hello world!
many years to notice it. I don’t know how many more years we’ll have canopy-height beeches in the 4 months ago
hollow — not too far north of here, all the big beeches are dead — so I figure I’d better start paying more
attention to them now." Attack Polymerase
Hello world!
-Dave Bonta of Via Negativa, "Beech Grotesquerie"
4 months ago
"I can’t imagine what it must be like to be tree-bereft, or tree-oblivious. I’m sure I’ve not been as open-
hearted as I could be with trees, but I’m learning, and they are great teachers."
-Beth Patterson of Virtual Tea House, "tree love: out of the closet"
"If only it were true. But the day will come, my t-shirt will read, when all the trees around us are
computers."
-Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG, "Three Trees"
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-Rambling Woods, "All children Should be able to visit a special place in the woods..." ► June (13)
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"Snow on a rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) branch."
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-Ash of Treeblog, "Finding a way"
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Lorelol: Character specificity and the
building bl...
"Large mammals like the giant panda are particularly sensitive to fragmentation due to their need for Lorelol: World of Warcraft as societal
space within a preferred habitat, the dense forest. It’s not just territorial; it has a lot to do with biodiversity. escapism, n...
The size of these patches determines the diversity of the forest, which creates these smaller habitats like Reconstructing full-glacial Europe
core or dense forest."
Ten Books
-The Voltage Gate, "Forest fragmentation and the isolation of the giant panda (a goodbye to Tai Shan and
Mei Lan) Protecting our waters, sustainable wolf
population...
"Lying beneath a large eastern white pine is sheer bliss. Because it sheds half its needles every fall, they Ridiculous titles, baby leopards
@NationalZoo and ...
provide a soft covering over the hard ground. It is there I listen to the wind soughing in the pines and am
perfectly content." Periodic Table of Science Bloggers
-Marcia Bonta, "The Tree of Great Peace" Will bluefin tuna disappear?
TweetVG 3/16 and 3/17/10: Rewilding
jaguars, blogg...
Journalism has always been communal
TweetVG 3/15/10: Shrinking birds, the
dying West a...
Question
The value of use
TweetVG 3/13/10: National Wildlife
Week & the disa...
TweetVG 3/12/10: Pangloss' syphilis,
indefinite ar...
Mountaintop mining, extinct in England,
grizzly pr...
Twittering TVG
Placing transitions
The Mysteries of Cave Ecology
How do taxonomic preferences shape
conservation an...
Another ecology blogger joins the
ranks at TVG
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we stood was swept by the terrific force of a big wave of resentment of the American people.
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thousand and seven hundred years in rain, snow, storm, and even mountain fire still keeping
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my thankful attitude strongly with nature - do not cry, do not spend your time and energy
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worrying. You have children following. Keep up your unity; come with me." So, in the past,
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all such troubles moved like a cool fog.
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Festival of the Trees #46 will be at Vanessa's Trees and Shrubs Blog
Deadline: March 29
Email: treesandshrubs.guide [at] about.com
Optional theme: Humorous trees (in honor of April Fools)
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by Jeremy at 11:00 AM
Tags: Art, Carnivals, Ecology, Environment, Philosophy, Trees
1. Bloodsuckers or
5 comments: tick-pluckers? The
case of the
oxpecker
Georgia said... DAY'S EDGE
Very creative format. Really enjoyed the illustrations. 2. Ep 140: The
Redback Spider
12:01 PM invasion of New
Zealand
MR SCIENCE SHOW
outwalkingthedog said... 3. One of the first
published
Nice, Jeremy. Thank you. accounts of sexual
12:16 PM selection in koala
bears: What does
it take for koala
boys to get lucky?
Jasmine said... DR. CARIN
BONDAR -
Thank you :) BIOLOGIST WITH A
2:46 PM TWIST
4. Some Like it Hot
SMALL THINGS
CONSIDERED
Joy K. said...
Thank you for hosting the Festival. I've had a wonderful time browsing through all of the entries.
7:50 AM
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Arati said...
a delightful presentation.. i'm still working my way through the links.. enjoying each one of them!
thanks for putting it all together.
11:02 AM
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