New! (and still in progress, 2008.07) My Favorite Trees
Alphabetical Index of All Taxa On This Website
Database Field Descriptions
A Rationale for the Gymnosperm Database
Recent Notes on the Database
This is the 'news' page, but it's updated quite sporadically.
Review of the Gymnosperm Literature
Online Interview
with Mary Townsend, editor of Amazing Trees, a webzine
Conifers in Human Culture
This link will take you offsite to a chapter from an FAO report on nonwood forest products. Send me an email if the link ever goes dead and I'll replace it with an archive copy of the file.
Augering holes to fell the Discovery Tree, the first really big sequoia ever found, in 1852 at the Calaveras North Grove [from Tree Size Determination].
Tree Age Determination, and Roster of the Ancients
This was reprinted by the native plant societies of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.
Tree Size Determination, and A Tale of Big Tree Hunting In California
PDF file: Forest Dynamics In A Forest-Tundra Ecotone, Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming. This is the text of my 1993 dissertation, which people sometimes request copies of. Link opens in a new window.
Anas pseudarboris, the Christmas Tree
Just for fun.
A collection of regionally focused pages:
Gymnosperms of Alta California
Conifers of Mexico
Gymnosperms of New Caledonia
Gymnosperms of Sichuan
Gymnosperms of Australia
Gymnosperms of New Zealand
Conifer Hunting In Central Mexico (2005)
This is mainly a travelogue with a lot of tree photos (mostly Pinus and Taxodium).
Conifer Hunting In Northern Mexico (2007)
This another travelogue. Currently it has a strong emphasis on the motorcycle trip aspect of it - this piece was written for the local BMW riders club newsletter. I'm still working on the conifer-lover's version.
Podocarp forests of south-west New Zealand
Biographical sketch for Thomas Kirk, New Zealand botanist
Paleobotany of Australia and New Zealand Conifers