All Trees Go To Heaven (American Beech)

Completely Arbortrary

Comedy, Education, Science

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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I think, therefore I am... a tree - American Beech (Fagus grandifolia)

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0:00.0	What's up, Fungle Associates?
0:06.9	Welcome to Completely Arbitrary.
0:08.3	It's the podcast about trees and other related topics.
0:11.1	I am one of your hosts.
0:12.5	My name is Alex Crozen.
0:14.5	And of course, I'm joined by my co-host, Mr. Casey clap.
0:18.9	Hi, Casey.
0:19.7	Hello, Alex.
0:20.4	Good to hear from you again. Good to hear from you again. I do feel like it has been a while since we have recorded. It has been. We've gotten a nice little groove, I think, of doing a behind the scenes, everyone, close your ears, record a few episodes, go away for several weeks. Yes. Record some few episodes. Yeah. Go away for a few weeks. Yeah. It's great. I know. That's what we've always wanted. It is. It is exactly what we always wanted. I've been traveling doing tree ID courses across the Great Pacific Northwest here. That's right. And whenever I drive more than, I don't know, a half hour, I insist on camping overnight.
0:55.9	Oh, sure.
0:56.7	And so I ended up basically going to, let's see, Boise and Spokane, and then driving and camping along the way there and back again.
1:06.4	Nice.
1:06.9	It's been great.
1:07.4	I found so many cool little spots.
1:09.0	I went hiking up in the North Cascades, not the National Park. Turns out just the, uh, uh, uh, paste Satan wilderness off to one side of it. And I found a tree, Alex, that you know what? Hmm. Never actually experienced before. Wow, good for you. Yeah. What was it? It's called the subalpine larch. Okay. And it's one of those trees.
1:27.6	I don't want to, it's not a white whale. It's not the right term. But it's on that level of like, I've been in and around the Pacific Northwest for a long time. I've seen them all. Give me that tree. Done, been there. This one has been elusive to you. This is one I've never actually gone up and actually clutched and been around.
1:28.3	Harpooned.
1:28.5	It's a white whale. I hope you harpooned it. I guess, yeah. I definitely harpooned the shit out of it. Did you get yourself a cone, Casey? I got myself a few cones of the subalpine large, and I noticed the differences. I was like, well, I'd be able to tell the difference between this tree and the
2:02.9	western larch, the one that grows also in the general region.
2:06.3	They just have a little bit of range overlap, but not a lot.
2:09.6	I'm guessing you were.
2:11.0	I was.
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