Stuckie the Dog

From Newsweek:

When loggers for The Georgia Kraft Corp. cut off the top of a chestnut oak tree to load it into a transport truck, they saw a brown and white hunting dog peering out at them from the hollow space in the log. But the loggers were about two decades too late to save the canine from his woody fate. All that was left was a dried, mummified hound, petrified in an eternal struggle to escape.

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Wolf Trees Part 2

From Seven Days:

The tree is a twisted giant. While most of the forest here grows straight and true, the bare limbs of the Wolf Tree — also called the Wolf Pine — jut every which way. They wind upward and outward in arthritic spires until the old tree crests the forest canopy, where bushy pine needles, its lone vegetation, soak in sunlight a good 20 feet above the next-highest trees.

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Tree Sniffing

From Emergence Magazine:

Aroma is the primary language of trees. They talk with molecules, conspiring with one another, beckoning fungi, scolding insects, and whispering to microbes. Aroma is also our primal tongue, a direct link to memory and emotion, an inheritance from the communicative networks that sustained the first animal cells. The receptors in our nasal passages are ready to listen. We have over one hundred different olfactory receptors, able to discern at least ten thousand odors. The English language is too meager to categorize this multiplicity, but our bodies know how to respond. Noses, though, need the help of conscious intention to put them in the right place.

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