Richard Preston: Climbing the world’s biggest trees
Science writer Richard Preston talks about some of the most enormous living beings on the planet, the giant trees of the US Pacific Northwest. Growing from a tiny seed, they support vast ecosystems — and are still, largely, a mystery.
via:TED.com
Nice that his presentations are gaining more color now considering the book had no photos.
Having been to many of the redwoods Preston wrote and apoke about, I found the habitats as an interesting comparison to how he presented them.
Cheers,
MDV
Oregon
We’re at least 98% sure we found Hyperion that Preston shared in his book. Sort of near lost man creek but not exactly. But we didn’t bring a photo along we printed from a tree guy’s site and left a camera behind. Guess we only went with our craniums. From memory it seemed right. Big humongous tower. We relied on a stick method to check height because its dirt cheap and we are dirt cheap. Looked close enough for us. It would be cool if that was really it because it was too wild in there for us. I mean we love redwoods but think we are gonna stick to trails form now on.