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Death To An Live Oak – A Strapping Reminder

Bart Colucci Planted along a rear service road of a major shopping center stands this Live Oak Tree. Heavy rains and strong winds were the “final nails in the coffin” as the tree splits from the center of the trunk about head high. The lower branches are heavily scarred from being bumped on numerous occasions by [...]
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Barley Barber Revisited – 2010 udpdate

Open Space Restoration combines nature with fiction, so to get the most out of each writing here is a brief trackline: this is non-fiction Last January a protest was staged at the entrance of Barley Barber Swamp in Martin County Florida. Barley Barber is currently under the stewardship of Florida Power and Light. The Protest [...]
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Cabbage Palm – Nature’s Resolve Revisited

Dr. Tom Poulson writes in response to an earlier post titled, Nature’s Resolve Discovered-The Real Heart of the Cabbage Palm. “The cabbage palm with almost all of its lower trunk missing is interesting. Unlike other trees, like oaks, palms grow only from the tip so, if you harvest the “heart” of the palm [...]
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Nature’s Resolve Discovered-The Real Heart of the Cabbage Palm

I live a fairly simple life, sometimes to the dismay of my wife and family. I get to spend more time in secluded nature than any one person should be allowed and for that I’m grateful. The other day while working in a new area I came across this cabbage palm and for the first [...]
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Largest Live Oak Tree…Reaching for the Sky

This by far is one of the largest Live Oak Trees I have ever seen. According to satellite images this massive Oak is 120 feet across. If you walk the outer edges of it’s 60 foot plus high canopy you would easily walk a 330 foot circle. I came across this Live [...]
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