Bannister 110

Dana Fritz will speak about her new book and exhibition, Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape. This fascinating and little-known story of the first federal tree nursery and what was once the world’s largest hand-planted forest reaches beyond Nebraska with relevance to our current challenges of climate chaos and biodiversity collapse.

See:
https://www.danafritz.com/field-guide
and
https://ltrr.arizona.edu/content/field-guide-hybrid-landscape

Forest ecosystems are particularly threatened by global change components, such as increasing frequency and severity of climate extreme events, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) and pollutants concentrations. All these factors strongly influence the capacity of forests to continue providing important ecosystem services we rely on, including climate regulation and mitigation.

Join us for our free docent-led tour at 10AM in the lobby of the Bryant Bannister Tree-Ring Building (1215 E. Lowell St.).

Visitors will be introduced to the basic tenets of dendrochronology and have a chance to examine specimens.

Space is limited and reservations are required. Please email outreach@ltrr.arizona.edu(link sends e-mail).