Okay, this is way cool. North Carolina landowners may soon have access to carbon markets. This means that private landowners would be able to conserve forest lands by allowing their trees to do what they do so well — absorb and sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Canopy Scientific, a […]
Forestry
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Through the Grateful Trees and Bees Meet Your North Carolina Native Trees blog series, we’ll introduce you to the native trees we consider our friends.* Quercus alba Common Name: White Oak Family: Fagaceae Native Range: Eastern North America Zone: 3b to 9 Height @ 15 years: 15-20 feet Height @ […]
Continuing Grateful Trees and Bees series of posts on Firewood Season, we turn this week to the debate over whether heating with wood can be considered a carbon-neutral, green energy. Stick with us, this gets a little smokey (no pun intended). At it’s most basic, wood burning is argued to […]
Once we get a few cooler nights in Central North Carolina and folks remember that no matter how hot our summer, winter will still arrive, we notice an increase in client calls about the availability of local firewood. At Grateful Trees and Bee this means that in addition to answering […]
Here at Grateful Trees and Bees in Durham, North Carolina, every season is firewood season. As a tree services company with a recycling philosophy, we work hard to make sure nary a scrap of any tree we remove ends up in a landfill. When we do a tree removal or […]
Greetings! It is my pleasure to share the good news that Grateful Trees and Bees now offers North Carolina landowners a full array of Forestry Consulting Services. In April 2014, I realized a life long goal, becoming a North Carolina Registered Forester. I am excited at the opportunity to engage […]
A core sample of a tree is a fascinating work of natural art that articulates not only the life of the tree, but the life of the environment we both share. We read in a tree’s rings about its encounters with drought or disease, as well as learn of its […]