Resources / Education
This page serves as a collection of educational links about mother hub trees, nature’s internet, or the importance of protecting mature oak trees in our environment. These articles and videos will help you become familiar with them.
🌳 ARTICLES ABOUT THE STERLING OAK
C&G Newspapers Sterling Sentry Story #1 by Andy Kozlowski – Jan 22, 2025: Centuries-old tree endangered by new development | (Issuu Downloadable E-Edition)
C&G Newspapers Sterling Sentry Story #2 by Andy Kozlowski – Feb 19, 2025: Residents protest plan to destroy tree older than United States | ( Issuu Downloadable E-Edition)
WXYZ TV Story – April 14, 2025 by Demetrios Sanders : Sterling Heights residents hop to save 250 yr-old tree from being cut down (archive)
C&G Newspapers | Sterling Sentry Story #3 by Andy Kozlowski – May 9, 2025: As city plants trees, residents push to preserve canopy: ‘Landmark” chinquapin still in crosshairs of new development
C&G Newspapers | Sterling Sentry Story #4 by Gary Winkleman – Oct 21, 2026: Old Oak Tree Preserved Under New Plan: Developers reduce scope of Van Dyke Apartment Building Proposal
🌳 EDUCATION
- Trees Are Critical Infrastructure – Citizens Research Council of Michigan
- Hard Times for the Tree of Life – NWF
- The Mother Tree Project
- The Importance of Saving Oaks – Morton Arboretum
- The Disease of Disconnect – Julia Butterfly Hill
- NatureServe species status
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🌳 VIDEO
Suzanne Simard, Nature’s internet: how trees talk to each other in a healthy forest
Doug Tallamy, The Nature of Oaks
Learn more : Homegrown National Park
Sterling Heights Chinquapin Oak Trunk to Canopy Video
🌳 OTHER BATTLES TO SAVE OLD MOTHER HUB TREES
- Citizens fight to save a 335-yr-old Chinkapin Oak tree nicknamed “Ruth” from development in Arlington, Tennessee (2022) [Facebook]
🌳 STERLING HEIGHTS TREES
- City of Sterling Heights Tree Inventory Map
- Tree canopy among city’s top green goals – by Eric Czarnik, Feb 19, 2024
- Sterling Heights gets tree planting grant – Eric Czarnik, Oct 29, 2024
- Sterling Heights to utilize GIS mapping to conduct comprehensive inventory of city’s tree canopy (archive) – MJ Galbraith, Nov 10, 2022
- Officials discuss the future of development, land use (archive)- Eric Czarnik, Jun 5, 2023
- Sterling Heights seeks long-term sustainability (archive Feb 10, 2020) – Mitch Hotts