For this Holiday Weekend, hear the year of the #BLTrees series in two days.  Today, June through the three-part conclusion in October -- including your haikus.  Plus, a flashback to May 2020 and listeners' favorite bird songs.

First, Part Two of #BLTrees for which listeners were invited to pick a tree and follow it through the year as we checked in every month with Marielle Anzelone, botanist and founder of NYC Wildflower Week (.org), who proposed the series, and different guests each month:

June: Charles Nilon, professor in the University of Missouri School of Natural Resources, talks about trees and equity.

July: Kate Orff, landscape architect, founder of SCAPE Studio and a professor at Columbia University where she directs the Urban Design Program and the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes, looks at trees and climate change resiliency.

August:  James Lendemer, lichenologist at CUNY and the New York Botanical Garden and the co-author of Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America (Yale University Press, 2021), and Miles Zhang, evolutionary biologist specializing in the study of parasitic wasps, talk about two of the many kinds of living creatures that live on trees.

September: Brandi Cannon-Force, botanist and science educator, talks about the fruit of trees.

October: First, Robert Macfarlane, a fellow at the University of Cambridge and the author of several books, including Underland: A Deep Time Journey (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019), looks deeply at trees as worlds unto themselves.  Then WNYC audio and video producer Amy Pearl, talks about memorial trees.  And the series concludes with Brian and Marielle sharing some of the many of the listeners' haikus written for, about, or in the 'voice of' their trees.

And as a 'tree-adjacent' treat, from prime birding season in May of 2020, Heather Wolf, a web developer for Cornell Lab of Ornithology and its eBird project and the author of Birding at the Bridge: In Search of Every Bird on the Brooklyn Waterfront (The Experiment, 2016) talks about how to identify birds by their songs as listeners imitate some of their favorites.

These interviews were lightly edited for time and clarity; the original web versions of the series interviews are available through these links: 

#BLTrees series page (Nov 2021 - Oct 2022)

Name That Birdsong! (May 14, 2020)