Adapting to ‘climate variability on steroids’ – Sherwood Arboretum

Andrew Benison, President, Friends of Sherwood Arboretum Association Inc.

"While these cone-bearing trees can trace their origins back to the Jurassic period, some 140 to 190 million years ago, it is the ravages of the 20th and 21st centuries that have taken their toll on the avenue."

– The historic avenue of Queensland Kauri (Agathis robusta) trees

it is not the portrait of our past climate but the heightened variability of our future climate that is the most concerning for the care of major botanic sites like Sherwood Arboretum.