Ep. 393 - Threats to U.S. Trees
In Defense of Plants Podcast
In Defense of Plants
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What are the threats to all the trees in the U.S.? To answer this question, you first have to figure out how many species there are and comb through data gathered by hundreds of dedicated biologists, ecologists, and more. Join me and Dr. Murphy Westwood as we discuss the first comprehensive threat assessment for US trees that could not have been done without partners such as BGCI-US, NatureServe, US Botanic Garden, and the US Forest Service. This episode was produced in part by Caelan, Tom, Don, Susan, Corbin, Keena, Robin, Peter, Whitney, Kenned, Margaret, Daniel, Karen, David, Earl, Jocelyn, Gary, Krysta, Elizabeth, Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts, Pattypollinators, Peter, Judson, Ella, Alex, Dan, Pamela, Peter, Andrea, Nathan, Karyn, Michelle, Jillian, Chellie, Linda, Laura, Miz Holly, Christie, Carlos, Paleo Fern, Levi, Sylvia, Lanny, Ben, Lily, Craig, Sarah, Lor, Monika, Brandon, Jeremy, Suzanne, Kristina, Christine, Silas, Michael, Aristia, Felicidad, Lauren, Danielle, Allie, Jeffrey, Amanda, Tommy, Marcel, C Leigh, Karma, Shelby, Christopher, Alvin, Arek, Chellie, Dani, Paul, Dani, Tara, Elly, Colleen, Natalie, Nathan, Ario, Laura, Cari, Margaret, Mary, Connor, Nathan, Jan, Jerome, Brian, Azomonas, Ellie, University Greens, Joseph, Melody, Patricia, Matthew, Garrett, John, Ashley, Cathrine, Melvin, OrangeJulian, Porter, Jules, Griff, Joan, Megan, Marabeth, Les, Ali, Southside Plants, Keiko, Robert, Bryce, Wilma, Amanda, Helen, Mikey, Michelle, German, Joerg, Cathy, Tate, Steve, Kae, Carole, Mr. Keith Santner, Lynn, Aaron, Sara, Kenned, Brett, Jocelyn, Ethan, Sheryl, Runaway Goldfish, Ryan, Chris, Alana, Rachel, Joanna, Lori, Paul, Griff, Matthew, Bobby, Vaibhav, Steven, Joseph, Brandon, Liam, Hall, Jared, Brandon, Christina, Carly, Kazys, Stephen, Katherine, Mohsin Kazmi Takes Pictures, Manny, doeg, Daniel, Tim, Philip, Tim, Lisa, Brodie, Bendix, Irene, holly, Sara, and Margie.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Indefensive Plants Podcast, the official podcast of |
| 0:04.2 | Indefensibleplants.com. |
| 0:05.7 | What's up? |
| 0:06.1 | This is your host, Matt. |
| 0:06.9 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:07.8 | How is everyone doing this week? |
| 0:09.8 | Well, if you live in the Lower 48 United States, you're going to be doing a bit better |
| 0:13.5 | because we are talking about the state of United States trees, just the lower 48 for reasons |
| 0:19.2 | that the paper will describe, but it's a monumental effort to assess |
| 0:23.4 | the conservation status of all of our trees. |
| 0:27.4 | Joining us to talk about this is Dr. Murphy Westwood of the Morton Arboretum, and she's |
| 0:31.8 | going to describe the wonderful breakdown of how it happened, why it happened, and all of the |
| 0:35.6 | benefits that have come out of this. |
| 0:37.7 | If you care about tree conservation, this is a fantastic episode for you. So I don't want to steal |
| 0:42.8 | any more of her time. Let's just jump right into it. Without further ado, here's my conversation |
| 0:47.2 | with Dr. Murphy Westwoodwood, welcome back to the podcast. It has been a minute since you've been on, and a lot has happened since then for all of my new |
| 1:11.5 | listeners. Then how about we start off with an introduction? Tell everyone a little bit about who you are |
| 1:16.0 | and what it is you do. Thank you. It is great to be back. So I am the vice president of science |
| 1:23.8 | and conservation at the Morton Arboretum, which is a tree-focused public garden in the western suburbs of Chicago. |
| 1:31.7 | We are on 1,700 acres and have a large collection of living plants as well as a herbarium. |
| 1:40.9 | We have about 4,500 different taxa plants that we grow and hundreds of thousands |
| 1:47.2 | of individual plants. We have a large education program. We engage about one and a quarter million |
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