Resources
Arbutus ARME Presentations
Spring Member Meeting 060321.pptxSpring Member Meeting 2021 Data Updates and Hotline FAQ
This reunion took place June 3, 2021. It was another virtual event to review TreeSnap trends, briefing on expanding data collection to iNaturalist, and opportunities for collaboration and research as well as FAQ from the "madrone hotline."
Join the new iNaturalist project at www.inaturalist.org/projects/arbutus-arme-pacific-madrone.
Pacific madrone: sacred, emergent, adaptive.
A Tacoma Tree Foundation Growing Skills Webinar was January 28, 2020. Watch it on the TTF YouTube Channel
The ARME shares the interspecies love story we share with madrones. Celebrate this sacred and iconic tree and its cultural importance. Madrone forests refuge complex interactions and patterns, biodiversity belowground and in the tree canopy. Meanwhile, the species safeguards adaptive capacity amidst climate disruption. We highlight the relationship we have with madrone while also building the skills required to help ensure we have a future for the species.
Inaugural Member Meeting 2020 Science, Education and Conservation Updates
2020 Arbutus arme Pittermann.pdfJarmila Pitterman
UC Santa Cruz
Arbutus menziesii and Quercus agrifolia show little water stress during California's massive drought
Kamakura ARME Growth Mortality ARME Meeting 2020.pdfRenata Poulton Kamakura
Duke University
Madrone Growth and Mortality: Potential local adaptation to environmental variables and differences in growth and mortality
Peterson From Seed to Madrone ARME Meeting 2020.pdfJanneke Peterson
ActNow Science
From Seed To Madrone Tree Curriculum, (Next Generation Science Standards) unit for middle school
Madrone Recovery Project 111020.pdfMichael Yadrick
Green Seattle Partnership
Seattle Parks and Recreation's Madrone Recovery Project
About the Presenters
Jarmila PItterman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz. She presented findings from her team's studies on madrone water stress during extended drought in California and published in the article "Two coastal Pacific evergreens, Arbutus menziesii, Pursh. and Quercus agrifolia, Née show little water stress during California's exceptional drought."
Renata Poulton Kamakura is a current PhD student in ecology at Duke University studying urban forests. She presented her research looking at growth and disease of madrones in the Common Garden Study.
Janneke Peterson has experience in both outdoor science education, as a classroom middle school science teacher and curriculum developer. She told us about supporting curriculum in schools focused on growing madrone seeds and teaching photosynthesis.
Michael Yadrick is a Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner supporting Seattle Parks and Recreation and Green Seattle Partnership. He presented an update about Seattle's Madrone Recovery Project in Seattle's forested parkland.
"Life and Death of Madrone in PNW Forests"
Madrone SWU 2020 ME.pptxArbutus ARME Inaugural Annual Report
Arbutus ARME Annual Report 2019 FINAL.pptx