Renowned arborist R. Bruce Allison is a professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at UW-Madison, cooperative researcher with the USDA Forest Products Lab, author of several books, and all-around expert on trees. He joins Friday Eight O’Clock Buzz host Jonathan Zarov in the studio to talk about the human-tree connection and give the stories of some of Madison’s most notable trees, from Aldo Leopold’s “good oak,” to civil-war era trees.
He’ll be giving a talk on the history of Wisconsin through the lens of trees at Monona Public Library on Sunday, October 14th at 2pm. To learn more about trees from R. Bruce Allison, visit his website, or check out his books If Trees Could Talk, Every Root an Anchor: Wisconsin’s Famous and Historic Trees, and several others.
