FL Torreya to Franklin NC: 2015 progress report

North Carolina was the destination of Torreya Guardians 2008 "rewilding" of Florida Torreya to its presumed ancestral home in pre-glacial warm times. Russ Regnery leads Connie Barlow on a tour of his young torreya trees 7 years later, at 3,800 feet elevation on the slope of Black Rock Mountain east of Franklin, NC. Filmed 29 April 2015.

Topics of discussion include (1) the advantage of sun-shading screen during the early years if Torreya is planted out in the open, (2) how Torreya is vulnerable to winter sun and wind scalding/dessication if not protected by a canopy, (3) the advantages of planting near nurse trees for shading and for sharing their symbiotic root fungi.

Click 16:14 time code for the second half of the tour: This is where Connie gives Russ 50 seeds from the fall 2014 harvest and Russ begins "free planting" them — that is, planting torreya seeds directly into his wild forest.

More information on this and other Torreya plantings (and an annotated list of all our video reports) can be found at
http://TorreyaGuardians.org

Access a list of all the videos on Torreya trees posted on this youtube channel at:
http://www.torreyaguardians.org/video...

Two WIKIPEDIA pages put the citizen efforts of Torreya Guardians in context of the overall need for "assisted migration" poleward of native trees:

"Assisted Migration of Forests in North America" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assiste...

"Torreya Guardians" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torreya...

Barlow's VIDEO exploration of "assisted migration" prospects for trees native to different regions of North America is here: https://thegreatstory.org/climate-tre...