Meet the Scotch pine #34B (ID and exact location were changed to protect the tree’s anonymity). The pine is strapped with various sensors, through which it offers streams of data about its interaction with the local forest environment and the atmosphere. This is a story of how this pine/sensing device caught a disease known as… Continue reading Scotch pine # 34B
Stories
Curated, growing collection of forest stories (for all 150+ stories, see Feral Map)Spectacled bear // Os // Oso de Anteojos
A spectacle bear sitting by the sun light, as weaved by Maria Victoria Chicunque. In Kamëntŝa culture, the bear usually stands for generous spirit and ingenuity; being these animals recurrent protagonists of stories and myths and represented in multiple ways, such as in this labor (weaved pictogram). MV June 2021 The Os (bear in Kämentsa)… Continue reading Spectacled bear // Os // Oso de Anteojos
Carbon Tree
I’m a pine, but humans call me the Carbon Tree. They are obsessed with how I breathe and trade carbon dioxide with the atmosphere, so they dressed me with some sensors to translate my life into numbers. Sometimes I feel like I’m just a living sum of data…so many of them come to look at… Continue reading Carbon Tree
Devil’s Rock
When you climb all the way up the rock, you are there. You made it. Now you can sit down and look all around, at the river Berounka, at all the deciduous and coniferous trees. Feel the wind. The rock is wrapped in a fable about a fisherman who made a deal with the devil:… Continue reading Devil’s Rock
Control Point
I just visited, I feel in control of my buzzing mind now.
Jumping Squirrel
Honestly, these squirrels are such “maybe” creatures. Maybe beavers? No, too high up in the trees. Maybe birds? Also not, too low from the sky. Who are they? Where did they come from? What do they want? What is their purpose? Maybe we will never know.