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Weekend Plans: Canoeing, Night Walks, Sleeping Trees

Weekend Plans: Canoeing, Night Walks, Sleeping Trees

My Memorial Day weekend promises to be a time with friends, camping, and stargazing.

More ideas for the long weekend in NYC (May 28-30, 2016):

Put out the picnic blanket in your favorite park, look up, and collect clouds
Take a nocturnal wildlife walk in the salt marshes of Marine Park, Brooklyn
Brush up on your basic canoeing skills at Oakland Lake in Alley Pond, Queens
Read Atlas Obscura’s article about how trees may sleep
Check out Central Park’s newly opened Hallet Nature Sanctuary

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3 responses to “Weekend Plans: Canoeing, Night Walks, Sleeping Trees”

DK Knauer

May 27, 2016

Fascinating article on trees sleeping at night, hope they do more research on it.

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1. Slow Nature Fast City
  
  May 27, 2016
  
  Thanks, DK. I hope to follow the latest research on these ideas. If you’re intrigued by tree behavior, I was very impressed with David G. Haskell’s book “The Forest Unseen.” I plan to post some of my favorite highlights from this book soon.
  
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mthew

May 27, 2016

And don’t forget using some of that glorious tree-shade this weekend. So much cooler under there…

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