Acorns
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On February 14, 2025, journalist Andy Kozlowski of C&G Newspapers published a follow-up story to his original one in January about the centuries-old Chinquapin oak tree in Sterling Heights, Michigan. It began to hit resident’s mailboxes on February 20, 2025, in the print edition. After being contacted by many residents, Kozlowski made their voices known…
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Wisdom from the Anishinaabe / Ojibwe people and language. You wonder how our world, attitudes, and this elder tree’s fate would change if we shifted our references and relationships. View this post on Instagram A post shared by James Vukelich (@jamesvukelich) Featured Image: Yggdrasil World Tree – From Northern Antiquities, an English translation of the Prose Edda from…
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When people witness vast amounts of clear-cutting of trees, it is a common question to ask “How can this be a ‘Tree City?’“ Why this matters: To understand the range of claims from a city being “a fraud” to the other extreme of using it as marketing on environmental commitments. “Tree City” qualification requirements are…
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How did this centuries-old tree come under threat after enduring so much, for so long? Aside from the turnover of land when Native American tribes owned the land now called Michigan, the recent history begins 20+ years ago, when this Chinquapin Oak stood in an amusement park (Riverland Amusement Park) that has existed under various…