Trees Do Matter

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Trees Do Matter

• Fourth Annual Why Trees Matter Forum
• Ohio State University Extension
• Wooster, Ohio
• October 22, 2009

Joe R. McBride University of California Berkeley,
California
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Importance of Trees to Children
Photo Creatus
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Childrens Voice
Photo www.mayafair.ca
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Value of childrens interaction with nature
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Richard Louv
Photo Emmett Duffy
Book Cover Amazon.Com
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Luivs Concept

• Nature-deficit disorder describes the human
  costs of alienation from nature, among them
  diminished use of senses, attention difficulties,
  and higher rates of physical and emotional
  illiness

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Louvs Tree House

• This tree house became our galleon, our
  spaceship, our Fort Apache, and from it we could
  see out ober the cornfield and north to the
  great, dark woods.
• We probably learned more from our failures. More
  than from suceesWe learned from practicing, one
  of the essential principles of engineering you
  can solve any large or complex problem by
  breaking it down into smaller, simpler problems.

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Robin Moore
Book Covers Amazon.Com
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Moores Concept and Concern

• Experiences with nature help to build the
  cognitive constructs necessary for sustained
  intellectual development and stimulate the
  inagination by supplying the child with free
  space and materials.
• There is an international trend toward investing
  public funds in sports areas rather than
  multi-choice space for free play. When a park is
  graded to create a play field, children gain
  soccer capacity, but lose places for self
  directed play.

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Forest Kindergartens
From thelocal.de/lifestyle
From nerochescheme.org
From thelocal.de/lifestyle
From wildworks.org
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Activities and Benefits of Forest Kindergartens
From R. Gorges, 2005
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Skills improved by attending Forest Kindergartens
From R. Gorges, 2005
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Use of Trees by Children
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Pieter the elder Bruegel. Childrens Games. 1560.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Childrens Games
Pieter the elder Bruegel. Childrens Games. 1560.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Childrens Games
Pieter the elder Bruegel. Childrens Games. 1560.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Activities and Games that Involve Trees
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Tree Climbing (91)
Photo Ron Chapple/Corbis
Photo Portlandground
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Tree House (65)
Photo Swansea City Government
Photo Claire Pendrous
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Hide and Go Seek (88)
From bestuff.com
Photo home-and-garden.webshots.com
Photo hubpages.com
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Swinging from Tree Branch (59)
Photo barrelltreecare.co.uk
Photo Getty Images
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Pine Cone Fights (32)
Photo Jennifer Adams
Photo travel.webshots.com
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Other Activities Reported

• Tree swings
• Collecting magnolia seeds
• Throwing sycamore seed heads
• Food fights with oranges
• Trees serving as forts
• Catching lizards in trees
• Mashing acorns
• Conkers
• Bending branches
• Rope swing from tree over river
• Breaking apart and scattering birch seeds
• Crossing stream on log
• Jumping off stumps

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Things Made from Tree Parts
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Helicopter from Maple Samara (44)
Photo J. Mennenga
Photo ashoutinthestreet.wordpress.com
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Decorations (40)
Photo schaefertreefarm
Photo comeniuspaths
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Weapons of Minor Destruction (28)
Photo D. Klimek
Photo www.countryliving.com
Photo Slingshot.depot
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The Buckeye Bow
From Beard, 1882
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Walking Stick (8)
Photo lilmonkeydays
Photo botanicalblue
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Other Objects Reported

• Stick houses
• Liquidambar fruits strung on a string
• Pine cone bird feeder
• Top of pit to trap animals
• Dams
• Dolls
• Guns
• Water divining rods
• King/Queen Staff
• Bridges
• Saw horse
• Soldiers
• Doll house
• Art Projects
• Hair decorations
• Cooking utensils
• Pine needle baskets
• Dream weavers

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Parts of Trees Eaten
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Things Eaten
Photo masterkey4u.com
Photo scavenging.wordpress.com
Photo www.desertusa.com
Photo homeideas.howstuffworks.com
Photo homeideas.howstuffworks.com
Photo mitzenmacher
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Additional Things Eaten

• Cherries Hickory Nuts
• Crabapples Chestnuts
• Persimmons Acorns
• Pomegranates
• Grapefruit
• Pineapple guava Sassafras roots (tea)
• Kumquats Bay laurel leaves (seasoning)
• Mangoes
• Jackfruit
• Guava
• Figs

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Pies Made from the Fruit of Trees
Photo from Ambrosia
Photo from RecipeTips
Photo from Sweet Dreams
Photo from Parrot Nation
Photo from Phat Albert
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Other Categories

• 1. Pretending to be loggers
• 2. Running for President
• 3. Lightning tree tag
• 4. A place to be alone

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Meditative Values of Trees for Children
Photo Craig Harper
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From chapelhillmemories.com
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• A new tree had grown from
• the stump and its trunk had grown along the
  ground until it reached a place where there were
  no wash lines above it. Then it had started to
  grow towards the sky again. The fir tree that
  the Nolans had cherished with waterings and
  manurings, had long since sickened and died. But
  this tree in the yard -- this tree men had
  chopped downthis tree that they built a bonfire
  around, trying to burn up its stump --this tree
  lived!
• Betty Smith
• A tree grows in Brooklyn. 1943

Photo Megunski
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Nearly every morning I go to the attic to
blow the stuffy air out of my lungs, from my
favorite spot on the floor I look up at the blue
sky and the bare chestneut tree, on whose
branches little raindrops shine, appearing like
silver, and at the seagulls and other birds as
they glide on the wind. As long as this exists, I
thought, and I may to see it, this sunshine, the
cloudless skies, while this lasts I cannot be
unhappy. Anne Frank February 23, 1944
From davidicke.com
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From NY Times - April 16, 2009
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American Cities Receiving Cuttings
Boise, ID Boston, MA Farmington Hills,
MI Indianapolis, IN Little Rock, AK New York,
NY New York, NY Seattle, WA Seneca Fall,
NY Sonoma, CA Washington, DC
From New York Times - October 15, 2009
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Clare Cooper Marcus
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Early Childhood Environments
Columbus
Hong Kong
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The Future of the Urban Forest
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Balance of tree removal and planting
From geograph.org
From treehuggers.com
U.S. - 41 removedplanted (National Urban
Forest Council,1986) U.S. - 634,405,719 missing
trees (American Forests,1990) New York City -
3,872,000 missing trees (Grove et al,
2006) Indianapolis - 100,000 missing trees
(Wilson and Lindsey, 2009)
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The Movies Vision of the Future City
From stcatharines.cityguide.ca
From www.technofile.com
From impawards.com
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Metropolis Blade Runner
City of Lost Children
From cinemelo.wordpress.com
From kk.org
From gallerynucleus.com
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Global Warming
From climatewizard.org
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Average Monthly Maximum Temperature (o F)
From weatherchannel.com
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Columbus
Atlanta
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Plant Hardiness Zones
From Columbus Dispatch
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Alternative Species to Consider
Current
Sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
American Basswood (Tilia americana)
Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra)
Alternative
Florida maple (Acer barbatum)
White Basswood (Tilia herterophylla)
Yellow buckeye (Aesculus pavia)
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Advocating for Children
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From Amazon.com
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Parens Patriae

• A doctrine that grants the power and authority of
  the state to children
• The parens patriae doctrine is applied in the
  treatment of children,
• because they are unable legally to manage their
  affairs.
• States may invoke parens patriae to protect the
  health, comfort, and welfare of children.
• For a state to have standing to sue under the
  doctrine, it must be more than a nominal party
  without a real interest of its own and must
  articulate an interest apart from the interests
  of particular private parties.

From legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com
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Gianfranco Zavalloni
From www.scuolacreativa.it.
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Arborists as Advocates
From www.norcalblogs.com
From D. M. Vernon
From www.kansasforests.org
From www.rainbowtreecare.com
From www.tinacohen.com
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Advocacy Roles for Arborists

• 1.Promote tree planting
• more trees
• kid useful trees
• secret groves in parks
• 2. Promote kid friendly tree prunning
• leave lower branches for tree climbing
• create branching platforms for tree houses
• 3. Promote tree climbing events for kids
• 4. Promote tree crafts
• provide schools or youth groups with tree
• branches or other tree materials
• 5. Promote kids learning about trees
• tree identification day
• Why Trees Matter essay contests

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