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Living Witness: Historic Trees of Texas

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 In an attractive tribute to the natural heritage of the Lone Star State, photographer Ralph Yznaga celebrates the strong connections between Texans and their trees. Inspired by the old Texas Forest Service book, Famous Trees of Texas, Yznaga has captured the continuing attachment we need to these magnificent reminders of our culture and history. Stunning images, stories, a detailed map, and driving directions to thirty-seven famous (and infamous) trees lend a hand us appreciate how entwined the lives of people and trees are:

  • The Treaty Oak, memorialized in Texas lore as a meeting place for Native Americans and likewise as the web page of Stephen F. Austin’s first boundary treaty with local Indians;
  • The Burnt Oak, standing witness to the dramatic events leading as much as the Battle of the Alamo, probably the most largest known specimens of Quercus virginiana var. fusiformis;
  • The Sam Houston Kissing Oak, said to occupy the location of a Houston campaign speech near San Marcos, where the “Old Hero” kissed local young women who presented him with a flag;
  • The Great Goose Island Tree, believed to be more than a thousand years old; and lots of others.

The photographs in Living Witness premiered on the groundbreaking of the Mollie Steves Zachry Texas Arboretum on the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Set to open in 2012, the centennial of Lady Bird Johnson’s birth, the arboretum will feature descendents of historic trees within the Hall of Texas Heroes.

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