The Importance of Wildlife Trees

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Despite the fact that trees die, they get a second life as they decompose. In this stage, the tree hosts tons of critters, from fungi to birds. Those with a dead tree on their land can help by topping it, and leaving it for wildlife. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3FACMKW Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/477X3Dw Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3QghXto EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3s3AxNn Learn More: 5 Steps to To Turn Your Garden into a Certified Wildlife Habitat Connect With Rachael Tancock: Rachael is a Naturalist and Content Creator who shares her knowledge and passion for nature through her @TheNatureEducator social media accounts to connect people with the natural world and encourage everyone to spend time outside. She was born and raised on Vancouver Island, British Columbia and loves hiking, camping, free diving, identifying species, and leading nature programs. Rachael obtained a Bachelor of Science Major in Geography and Minor in Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria and a Bachelor of Education from Vancouver Island University. She loves to merge her passions of nature with her enjoyment of content creation! Instagram Website YouTube TikTok Facebook Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Actually, my friends, we talked about plant blindness, and today we are going to unblind ourselves
0:17.4	just a little bit.
0:18.4	We're talking about the importance of wildlife trees and how trees are still trees
0:22.2	even when they're dead.
0:23.2	So we're talking with Rachel Tantcock, naturalist and content creator at the Nature Educator.
0:28.2	All over the internet, I would highly recommend you check her stuff out.
0:31.3	So Rachel, we were talking about this off the air and this idea that like the plant might
0:38.1	be dead, but it doesn't mean that it is truly dead in the sense of like the wider ecosystem
0:42.5	and maybe we could just start there.
0:44.5	Yeah, so wildlife trees is a term that kind of defines trees that are living, dying or
0:51.4	dead in a forest ecosystem and throughout its entire life, it is supporting a tremendous
0:58.9	amount of wildlife and throughout those stages of decomposition.
1:04.2	So from like a living tree to like, okay, now it's leaves aren't growing anymore, it's
1:08.4	starting to get some woodpecker holes in it to really start to decompose down and then
1:14.6	all the way down to just like the tiniest little stump possible.
1:17.9	But that whole stage of decomposition, it's supporting an array of wildlife and different
1:26.4	wildlife throughout those different stages.
1:28.2	So they're tremendously important for local biodiversity and habitat for wildlife, but
1:34.0	with land development that's, you know, happens all over the place and clearing forests,
1:40.1	that habitat is being removed.
1:43.5	So recognizing that that is important habitat, it's nice if we can try to keep those wildlife
1:50.4	trees around, even though they may not look as beautiful as a tree that has, you know,
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