This Tree Talk is a little further south than usual; while down in the Land of the Pines we picked up the top dog, loblolly pine! Loblolly (Pinus taeda) is a large, fast-growing canopy tree that is very important for the timber industry and our rural economies. It is super common and widespread in much of the southeast, though it was historically found primarily in wet bottomlands.

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Forests for the Bay has been funded by the US Forest Service for many years, and has allowed us to educate countless people on trees and their myriad benefits. Tree Talk is an extemporaneous lesson by Ryan Davis, recorded opportunistically by his wife Allyson while out and about in the landscapes they love. He sometimes gets things wrong because he's just speaking from memory, and the pop-ups and fact checks come from two sources: the US Forest Service Southern Research Station's accounts of the species at hand, and the 5th edition of North American Trees by Dr. Richard Preston Jr. and Dr. Richard Braham (Ryan's college dendrology professor) of North Carolina State University.

Recorded on 8/24/24 in Currituck County North Carolina, by Allyson "Umbo" Davis.