Website News
Trees of Stanford project featured in new book
May 2024 – Amy Stewart’s new book, The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession, features a chapter on how the Trees of Stanford project itself is a bona fide tree collection! In another chapter, find Stanford alumnus Dave Muffly’s work on climate-resilient trees. Also see the author’s events page.
NEW
Updated Inner Quad Tree Map
Our new tree map notes which trees still stand from the original Inner Quad planting in 1890, and which trees are featured in detailed scenes set in the Inner Quad in Richard Powers’ 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner The Overstory. Let us know what you think.
At Stanford
Partner with Trees
27 Sep 2022 – Stanford Partner with Trees course allowed curiosity to go out on a limb, Stanford News.
“Combining field trips, guest lectures, and an open-ended final project, the course was designed as an intentional contrast to how many students spent their time during the pandemic, off-campus and on Zoom.”
X-Trees at Stanford
7 Dec 2021 – Stanford professor spotlights evolutionary tree concepts with campus trees, Stanford News.
“More than a century of attentive groundskeeping has turned the Stanford campus into a museum of mathematical phylogenetics, says Noah Rosenberg, creator of the Stanford X-Tree Project.”
Donald Kennedy
21 Apr 2020 – We acknowledge the passing of Donald Kennedy, Stanford’s eighth president, earlier today. We are grateful for his immense support of Ronald Bracewell’s book Trees of Stanford and Environs. He wrote its foreword, which you can read here.
In our thumbnail picture, he poses for a quick snapshot with the book in the Inner Quad in November 2016.
- Read Donald Kennedy’s obituary (Stanford News).
Website News
By Olivia Mitchel. The Stanford Daily, 29 November 2018.
Arnold Soforenko Award
25 Jan 2018: The editors of our “one-of-a-kind” website were awarded Canopy’s Arnold Soforenko Award at Palo Alto’s City Hall. The award recognizes “significant contributions to our local urban forest.” Read more (see January 2018 Award Recipients).
Elsewhere at Stanford
Generation Anthropocene on the Ginkgo
9 May 2017 – Generation Anthropocene, Stanford’s popular podcast on planetary change, presents episode Ginkgo (listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts). Interviewed are Sir Peter Crane, former director of Kew, and Sairus Patel, Trees.stanford.edu co-editor.
Stanford Libraries Acquires Collection on Giant Sequoias
9 Mar 2017 – Stanford University Libraries has acquired historical materials documenting the discovery and exhibitions of giant sequoia trees from the 1850s to the early 20th century.
Past Event Highlights
Arboretum Tree Walk
12 Oct 2019: Sairus Patel, co-editor of Trees of Stanford and former editorial assistant for Pacific Horticulture, will lead us through the arboreal drama of natives & exotics within the Stanford Arboretum. Organized by Canopy.
Tree Walk: Trees of Stanford
9 Dec 2017: With expert arborist Dave Muffly. View a stunning Quercus nigra and learn about the decade of experimentation with hybrid oaks, which grow alongside mature oaks, both native and otherwise. Meet between Frost and Bing. Presented by Canopy. Photos of the event.
Trees of Stanford: A Walk through Time
Oct 10, 2015. Panel discussion with celebrated tree experts:
Herb Fong Stanford Grounds guru for over 36 years.
Matt Ritter Author of “A Californian’s Guide to the Trees Among Us.”
Dave Muffly Senior Arborist for Apple.
Moderated by Sairus Patel.
Guided tree walks afterwards. Co-presented by Canopy and the Stanford Historical Society.
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