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Know Your Trees

Discover and marvel with naturalist Michael Wojtech

Discover and marvel with naturalist
Michael Wojtech
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Bark ID: Get to Know your Trees

January 3, 2025January 15, 2025 Michael Wojtech

March 22 – indoor and outdoor workshop – 10:30 – 3:30.  New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY  

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The Growth of Trees: A Journey Through Time

January 2, 2023September 2, 2024 Michael Wojtech

January 5 – online program 7:00 to 8:30.  Natural History Society of Maryland

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Bark ID: Get to Know Your Trees

January 1, 2023September 2, 2024 Michael Wojtech

online March 6 –  7:00 to 8:00 pm and onsite March 9 – 12:00 to 4:00. New York Botanical Garden,

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Bark– Species ID and Ecology Course

January 1, 2023September 2, 2024 Michael Wojtech

March 11 & March 18 – 2 evening online program, 7:00 to 9:00 pm.  Natural History Society of Maryland

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Bark and Winter Tree ID

January 1, 2023September 2, 2024 Michael Wojtech

online March 12, 6:30 to 8:30 and outdoors March 17, 10:00 to 12:30.   Hitchcock Center, Amherst MA

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The Growth of Trees: A Journey Through Time

January 1, 2023September 2, 2024 Michael Wojtech

online program March 20,  7:00 to 8:30 and at Mary May Binney Wakefield Arboretum March 23, 10:00 to 12:30. Massachusetts

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The Growth of Trees

March 3, 2021September 2, 2024 Michael Wojtech

online March 21, 6:00 to 7:00.   Midcoast Audubon, Maine

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May 3 – Bark: Identifying Trees of the Northeast

March 3, 2021May 27, 2022 Michael Wojtech

Virtual Program – Morse Institute Library, Natick, MA – 7:00 PM (Registration begins 4/1/2021 at 8:00 AM)

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May 11 – The Growth of Trees: A Journey Through Time

March 3, 2021May 27, 2022 Michael Wojtech

Grey Towers Heritage Association – online presentation – 7:00 – 8:30

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July 14 and 17 – Bark: Get to Know Your Trees

March 3, 2021May 27, 2022 Michael Wojtech

Tower Hill Botanic Garden: Online presentation July 14, 6:30 – 8:00 Optional, additional session: Outside at Tower Hill July 17,

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Upcoming Programs

  • Bark ID: Get to Know your Trees

    Bark ID: Get to Know your Trees

    March 22 – indoor and outdoor workshop – 10:30 – 3:30.  New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY   (more)

Recent Work

  • The Language of Trees: On a Walk with Rutherford Platt – from American Forests Magazine

    The Language of Trees: On a Walk with Rutherford Platt – from American Forests Magazine

    In the winter of 1929, Rutherford Platt went for a walk in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden with noted botanist, Dr. Arthur Graves. As his mentor began pointing out the buds along the leafless tree branches, Platt was astonished — he had always supposed that buds appeared in spring, just before they bloomed. . . Read ... (more)
  • Buds: Spanning the Seasons – from The Outside Story (syndicated newspaper column)

    Buds: Spanning the Seasons – from The Outside Story (syndicated newspaper column)

    The sign in the window, which read, “Clearance! Hats and Gloves 50% off,” puzzled me. Snowflakes swirled on gusty winds. The bitter cold stung my fingertips—I wondered if I should buy warmer gloves while I had the chance. Clearance? Temperatures hadn’t climbed above freezing for days . . . Read the Article (more)
  • The Language of Bark – from American Forests

    The Language of Bark – from American Forests

    I spot the neon-orange flag, unmistakable among the more earthly hues of October leaves, and crash through the underbrush to reach it. I quickly begin cataloguing the surrounding trees. On a low-hanging branch, I find familiar looking needles and record eastern hemlock on my data sheet. I peer up through binoculars to recognize the leaves ... (more)

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