Elm Trees make up a large part of the incredible Winnipeg and Guelph Urban Forests and they are dying.

Pine (Pinus spp.) trees fascinate me. Somewhere along their hundreds of million-year evolutionary history they decided to radically change their growth strategy away from their fellow coniferous, needle-leaf, trees.

When I was living in Guelph, Ontario I used to spend a lot of time in a forest just outside city limits hiking to a massive oak tree that the locals call “Titan”. Titan was maybe the biggest tree I’ve even seen. It looked like a tree that Druids would worship. It was an Eastern North American Bur Oak, Quercus macrocarpa, America’s strongest Oak.