The Best Tree in the World: Center for the Collection and Promotion of All Wondrous and Odd Trees and Tree-Related Things
Chris has spent several years trying to find out which tree, out all of the trees in the world, is the BEST tree. There are, of course, many ways to determine a tree's relative bestness, and you can find many of them here and here. And, of course, Chris does not do all this work alone--the public has always been able to take part in this project by voting on the Most Beautiful Tree in the World, which is certainly one of the most important qualities related to a tree's bestness. However, Chris is now taking this project to a whole new level of interactivity and inclusiveness. From now on, the Best Tree in the World: Center for the Collection and Promotion of All Wondrous and Odd Trees and Tree-Related Things will function as a storinghouse or museum of important tree-related information, images, and ideas. While projects analyzing specific aspects of trees will still be forthcoming, this Center will act as a depository for trees of exception, rarity, and wonder, opening up the world of tree-investigation to everyone.
The Center will feature links to prominent trees and tree-related websites, and may also include other pictures and newsworthy facts from other sources. If you any tree-related links you would like posted on the Best Tree in the World: Center for the Collection and Promotion of All Wondrous and Odd Trees and Tree-Related Things, please send them to me at chris.wildrick @ gmail.com.
Current Best Tree in the World: Center for the Collection and Promotion of All Wondrous and Odd Trees and Tree-Related Things links:
Sound Map: Let's Follow Susie, by Susie Kim, is a collection of the sounds made by the wind blowing through the leaves of different trees; it's also a guessing game as you try to figure out which tree made which sound
Robot 250: The Look-See Tree, by Ally Reeves, is a planned bicycle-powered robot tree
The Mini-Bonsai Kit, by Running Press (also features a Bonsai Potato)--make your own bonsai tree
A guide to tree-climbing at Williams College, by Brent Yorgey, lists some great trees to climb
The National Arbor Day Foundation's Tree City USA community program--Carbondale, IL, home of SIUC, has been one for 26 years
A great list of the "10 most magnificent trees in the world," by "Alex"
A list of famous trees at Wikipedia
Artist Tim Knowles gets trees to make drawings, at the Drawn! blog
The National Register for Big Trees is the official list of the biggest tree of each species in the country
These two sites list some of the historic trees of Texas.
This company makes pens out of historic trees after they've been cut down.