by Ryan Regier | Feb 23, 2026 | Blog, Plants
Every once and awhile I try and do some ‘big tree’ hunting in British Columbia. I’ve discovered something a bit distressing when I do find these big trees. Almost always there is an English Holly (ilex aquifolium) growing somewhere near the Big Tree....
by Ryan Regier | Dec 10, 2025 | Blog, Plants
In the opening of his popular 2015 book, The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben describes coming across what he thought was a moss covered stone in a forest, only to discover after removing the moss that it was actually tree bark. I’ll let Wohlleben describe what...
by Ryan Regier | Sep 27, 2025 | Blog, Plants
English Oak via Unsplash Fall 2025 has proven to be a lucky season so far as we are in midst of the still unexplained ecological phenomena of an Oak Mast Year. Somehow Oak trees across the North Hemisphere have all collectively decided to produce an above-average,...
by Ryan Regier | Aug 15, 2025 | Blog, Plants
Imagine walking into your favorite local forest one day only to discover that it was now just a massive pile of dirt. Thanks to a nearby construction spot, an incredible amount of dirt had been dumped: Ten feet high and taking up the area of a soccer field. Trees...
by Ryan Regier | May 25, 2025 | Blog, Plants
Republishing an old blog post of mine from 2021 that’s very relevant in late May and early June. Those Fluffy White Seeds that cover Vancouver every late spring? Unlocking the secrets behind them could be a very powerful tool in fighting climate change. Every...
by Ryan Regier | May 12, 2025 | Blog, Plants
About a month ago I was browsing the shelves of Woodward Library – UBC’s Science and Forestry Library – and stumbled across a book published in 1942 that sent me down a research rabbit hole about a native common tree in Pacific Spirit Park. The book in question,...
