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This Old Tree

Old trees are awe inspiring links to the past that fire our imagination. What are their stories? Seasoned arborist and amateur historian Doug Still interviews local experts, historians, and regular folks to celebrate the myths and uncover the real tales. If you're a tree lover, join in to look "beyond the plaque" at heritage trees and the human stories behind them. Monthly.

On Defense: Estonia's Stadium Oak

64 hours 5 mins; December 31, 2025

Arborists Live: Our Tree Stories

60 hours 29 mins; November 27, 2025

The General Sherman Tree: First Encounters

68 hours 36 mins; October 27, 2025

S'Ozzastru and the Ancient Olive Trees of Sardinia

65 hours 57 mins; August 24, 2025

The Ginkgo at Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple

64 hours 56 mins; May 19, 2025

Tree Story Shorts IV

45 mins; February 24, 2025

India's Kabirvad Banyan Tree

80 hours 19 mins; February 05, 2025

London's Charlton House Mulberry

61 hours 18 mins; November 18, 2024

Saving Seeds: Bartram's Franklin Tree

62 hours 53 mins; October 07, 2024

The Tree That Owns Itself

61 hours 58 mins; April 28, 2024

The Mariner and the Mulberry

55 mins; February 28, 2024

Tree Story Shorts III

35 mins; January 08, 2024

Europe's 2023 Tree of the Year: The Fabrykant Oak

61 hours 55 mins; December 13, 2023

The Emancipation Oak

69 hours 59 mins; November 13, 2023

The Autograph Tree

62 hours 53 mins; October 11, 2023

Trees in Song: Season 1 Finale

57 mins; September 08, 2023

Texas Shade: The Founders' Oak

59 mins; August 03, 2023

Preservation is Progress: The Brontë Oak

55 mins; July 05, 2023

The Moses Cleaveland Trees

54 mins; May 26, 2023

The Imperial Pine Bonsai

59 mins; April 27, 2023

The Katsura at Dumbarton Oaks

47 mins; April 11, 2023

Tree Story Shorts II

49 mins; March 26, 2023

The Major Oak of Sherwood Forest

59 mins; March 13, 2023

The Birthing Tree

48 mins; February 27, 2023

Guarding the Cedars: Gilgamesh, and John Perlin's "A Forest Journey"

56 mins; February 13, 2023

The Charter Oak

59 mins; January 30, 2023

Harlem's Tree of Hope

45 mins; January 13, 2023

Tree Story Shorts

31 mins; December 08, 2022

Luna Endures: A Redwood's Survival Tale

60 hours 55 mins; November 26, 2022

Ep 6 - Luna Endures: A Redwood's Survival Tale

60 hours 43 mins; November 26, 2022

Luna Endures: A Redwood's Survival Tale

60 hours 43 mins; November 25, 2022

The Mies van der Rohe Honeylocust of the Alfred Caldwell Grove

56 mins; November 11, 2022

The First 9/11 Survivor Trees

51 mins; October 27, 2022

Chronicling a Tree: Thoreau's Concord Elm

59 mins; October 14, 2022

The Edison Banyan

45 mins; October 01, 2022

The Betsey Williams Sycamore

42 mins; September 15, 2022

Trailer

1 min; September 06, 2022

This Old Tree

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