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Ute Indian Prayer Trees

Contributed by
Bruce Benninghoff
Consulting Forester

Anyone who has hiked through a forest has occasionally seen a deformed or twisted ponderosa pine. Ever wondered about the forces of nature that created these natural sculptures?

 John Wesley Anderson, a retired engineer and a researcher working closely with current Ute Tribal leaders, believes the Ute Indians used ropes made from natural fibers to bend ponderosa pines into different positions to create “prayer trees.”

What's with those bent trees?

Crazy Finnish farmers built an epic drone. 

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The hidden beauty of pollination

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Nicki Rutt

Pollination: it's vital to life on Earth, but largely unseen by the human eye. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators with gorgeous high-speed images from his film "Wings of Life," inspired by the vanishing of one of nature's primary pollinators, the honeybee.

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