#quakingaspen — Public Fediverse posts

Can’t remember if I shared this here before or not, but here it is again. I was at Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan on Lake Superior a couple months ago. The tiny leaves of the quaking aspens caught my eye and held my attention. I sat at a picnic table nearby for a long time, just listening to the water and the leaves fluttering in the breeze. It was the peace my heart and soul needed.

As an aside, the breakwall light is in the background. As teenagers, we’d walk out to it—first on easy cement, then jumping between large rocks with gaps between them. Once, my cousin dropped his camera into a gap. Some guys stopped to help, lying on the rocks and reaching down until one came up with a camera, his arm scratched and bleeding. Except—it wasn’t my cousin’s! It was a similar cheap camera, rusty and beat up from being down there who knows how long. OMG, what were the odds?

#LakeSuperior #PresqueIslePark #QuakingAspen #MichiganNature #QuietMoments

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌲👂 #Sound artist Jeff Rice lowered a #hydrophone into #Pando, a single 12,000-year-old quaking aspen in #Utah that cloned itself into 47,000 stems over 100 acres, and recorded the rumble of a million #leaves trembling in a #thunderstorm, transmitted through its connected root system.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/haunting-sounds-of-the-worlds-largest-living-thing-recorded

#quakingaspen #trees #plants #science #nature #ecology #conservation #audio #organisms #ancient

Return Of Wolves To Yellowstone Has Led To A Surge In Aspen Trees Unseen For 80 Years
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https://www.livescience.com/animals/land-mammals/return-of-wolves-to-yellowstone-has-led-to-a-surge-in-aspen-trees-unseen-for-80-years <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122941 <-- shared paper
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https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/pwZObUXR <-- shared video
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https://www.livescience.com/animals/land-mammals/reintroducing-wolves-to-yellowstone-helped-entire-ecosystem-thrive-20-year-study-finds <-- shared related technical article
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"Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young trees, and it is finally paying off for quaking aspen...."
#elk #cervuscanadensis #bison #bisonbison #wolf #wolves #canislupus #quakingaspen #populustremuloides #herd #browsing #predation #aspen #vegetation #forest #rophiccascade #yellowstone #YellowstoneNationalPark #ecosystem #restoration #natural #balance #canopy #graywolves #habitatloss #predator #saplings #growth #mature #ecology #reintroduction #survey #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #herbaceous #browsing

Pando — the world's largest tree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_%28tree%29

“Pando occupies 108 acres (43.6 ha) and is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000 tonnes (6,000,000 kg), making it the heaviest known organism. The root system of Pando is estimated to be up to several thousand years old, placing Pando among the oldest known living organisms.”

( #aspen #clonalColony #genet #pando #populusTremuloides #quakingAspen)

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