Remarkable Trees
The Remarkable Trees Field Trip is an annual tour with the arboretum to visit regional sites that are home to some of our area's most incredible trees.
2012 - The Witness Trees
The champion Chinquapin and Bur oaks of Elkton, the Witness Trees & the Brompton Oak at Mary Washington University, and the historic gnarled Catalpas of Chatham Manor.
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2011 & 2010 - Bath County
In 2010 & 2011, the remarkable trees field trip went to explore the treaures in Virginia's highlands: the ancient oak with a base wider in girth than most are tall, the Humpback Covered Bridge (one of the few remaining), and the moss colony at the base of a hot and cold springs waterfall.
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2009 - Cyprus Bridge on the Nottoway River
Discovered by ecologist, Gary Fleming, and retired Suffolk teacher, Byron Carmean, this canoe- and kayak-only accessbile grove of swamp tupelos, Nyssa aquatica, and bald cyprus, Taxodium distichum, contains many trees of exceptional and record size and strange growth forms indicative of very old age. Several of these trees exceed 8' in diameter and one bald cypress in particular has a 35' circumference.
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2008 - Dolly Sods Wilderness
Led by Dr. Bodkin in the (NWPS) wilderness in 2008, the Dolly Sods field trip explored the high-altitude plateau in the Alegeheny Mountains in eastern West Virginia that is home to lifeforms normally found in the far North.
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