Trees & Forests Posters, Prints, Charts, Photographs & Calendars
for science and social studies educators and home schoolers

The Tree of Knowledge
of Good and Evil,
Giclee Print
• theology posters

Autumn Leaves poster

Autumn Leaves

• autumn posters
• Autumnal Equinox, 9-21 or 22

Rainforests

Poster Text: Rainforests are the richest environments on Earth and the most ancient ecosystem, they serve as the “gene pool” for the world. One-fifth of all birds and plants evolved in the Amazon basin. An estimated 50 percent of all plants and animal species live in tropical rainforests.
Two-third of all flowering plants are found in the world's tropical rainforests.
A quarter of all the medicines we use come from the rainforest plants.
Rainforest play major role in regulating our atmosphere. Vast amounts of carbon dioxide, a pollutant that contributes to the greenhouse effect, are absorbed during photosynthesis and stored as carbon in the tree's tissues.

• more rainforest posters

Forest Biomes - Coniferous, Deciduous, Rainforest

Photographer Ansel Adams, known for his skillful fusion of dramatic contrasts, was a conservationist who used his photos to promote the balance between people and nature.

Birch bark was used to make utilitarian objects like bags, baskets, boxes, canoes, even writing surfaces. In fact, Thomas Jefferson instructed Meriwether Lewis that one of his copies of field notes should “be on the paper of the birch, as less liable to injury from damp than common paper.”

FYI - Removing only the outer layer of bark from a birch may not kill it, but it will weaken the tree; removal of the inner bark will always kill the tree.

Ancient white pines line a roadway in Superior National Forest. The Eastern White Pine is the state tree of Michigan.

• National Parks posters

Decorative Page Showing Fruit Trees and Ways to Cultivate Them

• fruit posters

An arbor is a shelter of vines, branches, or latticework covered with climbing shrubs or vines.

On February 12, 1824 the settlement of John Allen and Elisha Rumsey was registered as AnnArbour in honor of their wives and the shelters of grape vines in the vicinity. Michigan posters

Arbor Day is a nationally-celebrated observance that encourages tree planting and care.

Bamboo, a “woody perennial evergreen plant in the true grass family”, is the fastest growing woody plant in the world.

Bamboo is used as building material, food, medicine, papermaking, fiber for clothing, and as ornament in gardens. Bamboo is also the major food of panda bears.

In Japan, bamboo groves surround Shinto temples as a barrier against evil.

Bamboo Flute
Bamboo Flooring

A banyan is a spreading tropical fig tree that propagates from seeds dropped by bird. The seeds will sprout where they land and send out aerial roots that develop into additional trunks.

The word “banyan” is from the Portugese banian, which meant “the place where merchants gathered”.

Baobabs, sometimes known as the “upside-down” tree are the national tree of Madagascar and are found on mainland Africa and Australia as well.

The Cedars of Lebanon is an ancient forest that was once the source of timber for the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Phoenicians, and Egyptians. Several verses from the Bible mention the Cedars - “The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like the cedar in Lebanon.” (Psalm 92:12)

The “Cedars of God” (34º14'37"N 36º2'54"E) were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1998.

FYI ~ in Mesopotamian mythology the Cedar Forest is the glorious realm of the gods where Gilgamesh dares to cut down virgin trees during his quest for immortality (tablet 4-6).

The ginkgo, also known as Maidenhair Tree, is considered a “living fossil”, and has no known living relatives. Ginkgo provides for both food and medicinal uses.

Long cultivated in China, some ginkgo trees planted at temples are believed to be over 1,500 years old.

The palm family of flowering plants, mostly distinguished by their large, compound, evergreen leaves arranged at the top of an unbranched stem have habitats ranging from deserts to rainforests.

Date Palms were cultivated in Mesopotamia and in the Middle East more than 5000 years ago; the palm is mentioned in the Bible 30 times, and in the Quran 22 times.

Christianity celebrates Palm Sunday with using date palm fronds.

Other products from palms include food coconuts, palm oil, bananas, heart of palm; building materials like rattan, raffia, coir from coconuts for items like mats, and palm leaves are used as thatch for roof covering and to weave baskets.

The rubber tree is of major economic importance because its sap - known as latex - is the primary source of natural rubber.

The rubber tree is also the source of parawood valued for its qualities suitable in furniture making and its “environmentally friendly” harvesting, as it comes from trees that have been cut down at the end of their latex-producing cycle.

• Brazil posters
• Tears of the Tree: The Story of Rubber--A Modern Marvel

The Strawberry tree is indigenous to the Mediterranean region and western France to western Ireland.

Known in Spain as the madroño, it is a symbol of Madrid along with the bear.

FYI - The fruit's shape only reminds one of strawberries.

This wooden fishing boat was built by 60 people in 100 days, WW2, Topsham Shipyard, 1944.

The mythological folklore figure Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox Babe were born in the logging camps of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

J. Sterling Morton: Pioneer Statesman; Founder of Arbor Day

J. Sterling Morton
b. 4-22-1832; Adams, NY
d. 4-27-1902; Lake Forest, IL

Julius Sterling Morton, the founder of Arbor Day, was the Secretary of Agriculture for President Cleveland and also served as Secretary of Nebraska Territory and Acting Governor.

FYI - Morton's son Joy (Joy was his mother's family name) was the founder of the Morton Salt Company in Chicago.

• list of notable ecologists, environmentalists and conservationists