A collection of articles and videos featuring Dave and written by Dave
California Native Trees: Climate Change and Adaptation with Dave Muffly.
Plant Love Stories with Dave Muffly
Dave Muffly on Tree Selection for Climate Change
Dave Muffly joins Urban Ecology Collaborative for a presentation on tree selection for climate change.
Climate Change Scenarios for Select California Native Oaks
Today, one of the urgent questions in horticulture is what planting strategies are best for the rapid climate change we are experiencing. One common proposal is to assert that local native plants are best adapted to current and future climate flux. But this assertion is proving out of step with modern climate science. Published scientific projections of future geographical range of California trees show movements from hundreds to the low thousands of miles, often right out of California.
GB Films follows arborist Dave Muffly
on his journey to Tucson, Arizona to gather acorns for the California Billion Trees Initiative to reverse climate change.
Pacific Horticulture Podcast featuring Dave Muffly “Episode XI: Quercus! Genus and Genius of Oaks with Dave Muffly” Listen here
Grab the transcript to the Podcast here.
“There’s a surprising portion of the entire natural world of all biodiversity that either rests in or on an oak tree. And another huge portion of biodiversity uses oak trees for food. An oak can produce 3 million acorns in its lifetime, but only a tiny handful of those, if any, will create trees, but those extra acorns are there on the ground waiting to feed just a huge number of organisms from tiny ones all the way up to bears.” - Dave Muffly
Oak Reforestation
Dave Muffly gives an animated video talk regarding native oak planting strategies, techniques, and philosophies at Harmon Canyon in Ventura. Dave talks about lessons gleaned from a third of a century growing oaks on Stanford University openspace.
Stewardship matters: Case studies in establishment success of urban trees
Urban tree planting initiatives aim to provide ecosystem services that materialize decades after planting, therefore understanding tree survival and growth is essential to evaluating planting program performance. Tree mortality is relatively high during the establishment phase, the first few years after planting. Qualitative assessments of programs with particularly high…
Rootball Treatment for Optimal Tree Growth
Canopy is a Palo Alto-based, non-profit tree advocacy organization. In January and February 2007, the organization directed the planting of nearly 500 fifteen-gallon trees along Highway 101 in East Palo Alto, California, in a long-term pilot project that will be periodically monitored to determine the general levels of tree performance…
A collection of Engelman Oak Trees throughout California including structure, root systems, acorns and leaves.