ATC ‘22 ARBORPALOOZA: EXPLORING THE WIDE WORLD OF TREES
Outdoor Walk & Talk #4: The Trees of Tubbs Hill Monday, October 3, 2022 | 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm (1 CEU) Presenter: Jack Nisbet Location: Meet at the ATC Info Booth
This walk will travel east from the rocky point above the marina through areas of ninebark and Douglas-fir that include significant Armillaria mortality. We will view areas planted with seedlings of rot-resistant species, examine Norway maples that have been intentionally killed to make room for the new trees, and try to visualize the forest as it existed before the period of Euro-American contact. The hike will end in a grove of large western white pines and tamaracks thriving in colluvial soils at the very bottom of the hill—some on private land, some within the city park. Along the way we will learn how the city of Coeur d’Alene is adapting its 20 year- old master plan for the park to address such modern conditions.
Spokane-based writer Jack Nisbet is the author of several collec - tions of essays that explore the human and natural history of the Northwest, including Purple Flat Top, Visible Bones , and Ancient Places . Nisbet has also written award-winning biographies of car - tographer David Thompson ( Sources of the River ) and naturalist David Douglas ( The Collector ). These two early visitors to the Pa - cific Northwest provided vital original information about the variety and tribal management of regional forests.
Nisbet’s most recent project, The Dreamer and the Doctor , traces the unlikely ad - ventures of late 19th-century Idaho homesteaders John and Carrie Leiberg. Be - tween 1895-1903, John Leiberg carried out landmark National Forest Reserve surveys in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Montana.
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