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The Boston Globe Interviews David Sibley

January 7th, 2010

Be sure to check out this great interview from The Boston Globe with David Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Trees. David Sibley discusses the five-year-old hubbub over the apparent sighting of an ivory-billed woodpecker, and he reveals his biggest fear for the future of trees:

“The longhorned beetle (in Worcester) is really scary, and it’s just one of many introduced pests and diseases now threatening trees.”

Long-horned beetle

Yikes.

Be sure to read on to find out what Sibley’s favorite tree is…and what the next Sibley guide will be about.