How Trees Talk to Each Other

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There are a good handful of tunneled out trees down the California coast and two big ones have fallen. Most recently, this one called the pioneer cabin tree, which toppled and shattered in early 2017 after some severe weather. You can't drive through it anymore unless you have like a mini Cooper because they didn't weigh back with the mini teas or the model teas. The Calaveras big tree association remarked, quote, the storm was just too much for it.

Part 1 of a very special duo: Do trees have feelings? How do they talk? How old can they get? Are there any tree stories that will make me cry? Spoiler: YES. This episode aired in May 2018 and is worth a revisit, especially since Part 2 is a brand new 2020 interview with possibly the world's most enthusiastic tree expert, J. Casey Clapp. Learn about his many tree tattoos, new additions to those tattoos, how roots communicate to each other, "crown shyness,” social media shyness and the mental health benefits of tree proximity. Also: banana facts and Casey f*cking hates apples.

Be sure to hear the fresh catch-up interview in Part 2 to learn what Casey’s been up to since this originally aired. He’s been busy.

Follow Casey Clapp at Instagram.com/Clapp4Trees and his new podcast Instagram.com/arbortrarypod

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