John Seiler

I am a blue collar Professor of Forest Biology at Virginia Tech. I teach all things trees to age groups ranging from 3 to 95. I research carbon cycling.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

Students’ summer research experience focuses on forest ecological assessment https://t.co/Npk4rTjEIE

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

White oak seedlings originating from seeds collected from Virginia Tech's old growth forest Stadium Woods have been moved into bigger pots...their third home so far. They look very happy and healthy.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

Planted the Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment 2019 class graduation tree yesterday evening outside of Cheatham Hall. Trees looks great...not sure about the planters.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

The new 6 week old pullets meet the big birds for the first time. All went well but they were seperated by a fence.

[Eric Wiseman @vtarborist]

We now have stone markers and tags from #plantsmap to identify the trees around Cheatham Hall that were planted to commemorate spring graduation of @vt_cnre over the last 25 years. Each tag links to a tree pofile page on https://t.co/sX1Mj9hhmY.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

These are some of the hokie stones from the original memorial in memory of those killed on April 16 at Virginia Tech. No words...

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

Finished "America's Toughest" road half marathon this morning the Blue Ridge Half Marathon. Up and down two Blue Ridge mountains...sort of ridiculous actually.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

Sooo...my daughter sends me this from Arizona. Why would they pile rocks up like that at the bottom of a nice bike ramp. Seems kind of mean spirited.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

Virginia Tech Student Chapter of the Society of American Foresters hosted a "Forestry Panel" made up of current students and forestry professionals to share what the profession of forestry has to offer.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

Offspring from tree #1 "The mighty Colbert oak" located in Virginia Tech's old growth forest Stadium Woods. The seedling is breaking bud in the forestry greenhouse at Virginia Tech after an abbreviated winter.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

BIG THANKS TO folks from Virginia Tech facilities for delivering two big chunks of Hokie stone and a huge pignut hickory log for the naturalization project on west side of Cheatham Hall, home building for College of Natural Resources and Environment.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

If you ask me, little Birtrand doesn't describe black walnut bark very well. Everyone knows the bark is dark grey on outside and the color of milk chocolate inside when scraped.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

https://t.co/0HdFXWbnZo

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

A ton of hard work to get this valuable data for Virginia Tech. Way to go Peter Stewart and Dr. Eric Wiseman.

Virginia Tech completes database of every single tree on campus https://t.co/nSIpbirSqV

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

Soooo I'm in Hobby Lobby and the artificial trees are now combinations of numerous species built into one tree...so realistic.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

View from my final exam room...Virginia Tech War Memorial Chapel on left, drill field in background.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

There is 14 inches of snow under those freshly fallen white oak leaves here in Christiansburg, Va.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

Cold final exam for both the Tuesday and Wednesday sections of Virginia Tech dendrology. Congratulations to everyone on a good semester of hard work and successful tree ID.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

Timelapse of mushrooms blooming https://t.co/q9NURKBmRb

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

Clockwise starting at 12 o'clock high...black oak, chestnut oak, black oak, white oak, black oak, scarlet oak, in center post oak. Slab is white ash killed by emerald ash borer. All trees were identified by Dr. Dendro using numerous features.

[John Seiler @DrDendro]

Common upland oaks found in southern Appalchians...can you identify them (there may be duplicates)? Bonus if you know the species of wood they are laying on.