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andyheald.bsky.social
Site contained some older plantation woodland - including this amazing Black Poplar which had collapsed many decades ago, but had then resprouted and branches have become new stems, with the original stems becoming a nurse log supporting young Birch and Ash - a true Phoenix Tree 🌳
Collapsed Black Poplar, with young seedlings growing on top of the fallen trunk #NurseLog Most of the vertical stems in the foreground are growing from the original collapsed Black Poplar
June 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
andyheald.bsky.social
Site contained some older plantation woodland - including this amazing Black Poplar which had collapsed many decades ago, but had then resprouted and branches have become new stems, with the original stems becoming a nurse log supporting young Birch and Ash - a true Phoenix Tree 🌳
Collapsed Black Poplar, with young seedlings growing on top of the fallen trunk #NurseLog Most of the vertical stems in the foreground are growing from the original collapsed Black Poplar
June 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social
It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo I took of a #nurselog covered in #lichens and #moss. Then tell someone you know about my work–you can RS this or send folks to RebeccaLexa.com #nature #naturalist #forest
A reddish-brown decaying log covered in patches of pale green lichens and dark green fuzzy moss.
February 9, 2024 at 7:42 PM
wearecocreative.bsky.social
Her memory is undoubtedly a gift. Rest in power and peace, Joanna Macy.

#JoannaMacy #NurseLog #SystemsThinking
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jul 22
Macy once wrote, "It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells. Anxieties and doubts can be healthy and creative...because they permit new and original approaches to reality."
In Honor of Joanna Macy, 1929-2025
I write while staying in one of the great forests of British Columbia, a forest in which the inextricability of life from death is gorgeously evident. Several kinds of fern spring from this soil, some...
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July 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
patloughery.me
I'm revisiting friends' Second Brains / Digital Gardens / that kind of thing, and thought that may be what you used nurselog for. I know I liked a newsletter to it a while ago but didn't say much.
December 23, 2024 at 10:14 PM
duanehere.bsky.social
Echoing your post, but from Capilano Park in North Vancouver, BC.
#Nature
#NurseLog
#Mushrooms
#Explore
A photo of a large Douglas Fir tree that was topped and has become home to numerous varieties of wild mushrooms. A sign in the Capilano Park in North Vancouver, BC describing a “Nurse Log” which is a fallen tree which serves as a giant sponge for moisture and nutrients that allows new plants to flourish.
November 22, 2024 at 4:42 AM
burning-bushman.bsky.social
Look at this beauty! Larger than a horse’s hoof, growing on a fallen birch tree.

#Fungi #FungiFriends #moss #ISeeMoss #Forest #ForestFloor #lichen #NaturePhotography #NurseLog
Tinder fungus, a very large specimen, growing on a nurse log, and old birch tree. The trunk is covered in beautiful lichen and moss. Tinder fungus, a very large specimen, growing on a nurse log, and old birch tree. The trunk is covered in beautiful lichen and moss.
November 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
burning-bushman.bsky.social
#ForestFriday

Some more pics from last week

Oxalis on a stump turned nurselog and beautiful Hylocomium on a rock.

#ForestFloor #moss #ISeeMoss #lichen #nurselog
A rotten treestump nowadays completely covered with algae, lichen and moss. Oxalis has also found a place to live here. Hylocomium splendens or ”house moss” grows in abundance on a rock, completely covering it.
September 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
burning-bushman.bsky.social
I found this amazing piece of art in nature 💚

#nurselog #TreesonTuesday #ThickTrunkTuesday
#Forest #trees #fungi #FungiFriends #lichen
September 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
burning-bushman.bsky.social
Who lives here in this gorgeous mossy stump?

#IseeMoss #moss #forest #forestfloor #nature #naturephotography #stump #nurselog #habitat
A stump completely covered by different species of moss. It’s also surrounded by moss on the forest floor. The stump has a cavity that looks like a gaping mouth, quite possibly the den of some forest critter.
March 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
burning-bushman.bsky.social
Meet Mr Stumpy with his fancy fungus hat!🎩💚

#forest #forestfloor #stump #nurselog #lichen #fungi #mushrooms #nature
A small tree stump completely covered in different species of lichen. White lichen and darker lichen accidentally grow in places making the stump having a ”face”. On top of the stump is a cluster of dark brown fungi, making it look like the stump man is also wearing a hat.
March 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
misandr.bsky.social
Oh I kinda did that once

misandr.bandcamp.com/album/nurselog
Nurselog, by Alewife
9 track album
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November 20, 2024 at 1:49 AM
alocasiamag.bsky.social
"We spend a long time in the trees, on a tree, by the river. We kiss, for lack of answers. I use their knife to carve FAG4DYKE into the wood. Which of us is which is a matter of opinion."

—Luke Sutherland

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Luke Sutherland :: “Nurselog” – ALOCASIA
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May 25, 2026 at 11:46 AM
alocasiamag.bsky.social
"We spend a long time in the trees, on a tree, by the river. We kiss, for lack of answers. I use their knife to carve FAG4DYKE into the wood. Which of us is which is a matter of opinion."

—Luke Sutherland
Luke Sutherland :: “Nurselog” – ALOCASIA
alocasia.org
March 19, 2024 at 1:01 PM
alocasiamag.bsky.social
"We spend a long time in the trees, on a tree, by the river. We kiss, for lack of answers. I use their knife to carve FAG4DYKE into the wood. Which of us is which is a matter of opinion."

—Luke Sutherland
Luke Sutherland :: “Nurselog” – ALOCASIA
alocasia.org
February 21, 2024 at 2:42 PM
alocasiamag.bsky.social
"We spend a long time in the trees, on a tree, by the river. We kiss, for lack of answers. I use their knife to carve FAG4DYKE into the wood. Which of us is which is a matter of opinion."

—Luke Sutherland
Luke Sutherland :: “Nurselog” – ALOCASIA
alocasia.org
January 23, 2024 at 2:40 PM
alocasiamag.bsky.social
"We spend a long time in the trees, on a tree, by the river. We kiss, for lack of answers. I use their knife to carve FAG4DYKE into the wood. Which of us is which is a matter of opinion."

—Luke Sutherland
Luke Sutherland :: “Nurselog” – ALOCASIA
alocasia.org
December 27, 2023 at 2:27 PM
amyhevron.bsky.social
Some fun news from this week! Log Life is on the New York Public Library Best Books of 2024 list! So fun that this story about a nurse log habitat is connecting with readers across the country :) @simonkids.bsky.social #kidslit #kidlit #stem #ecosystem #nurselog
New York Public Library Best Books of 2024, Log Life cover with nurse log. Featuring sapling, tree vole, mushrooms and beetles.
December 6, 2024 at 8:25 PM
amyhevron.bsky.social
Thrilled to share that Log Life has been shortlisted for the PNBA Book Awards! Yay for nurse logs! #kidslit #kidlit #stem #nurselog #beachlanebooks #simonkids
October 22, 2024 at 3:43 PM
daemonicusprince.meow.social.ap.brid.gy
#thicktrunktuesday Diglett meme energy 😆
or "standing on the shoulders of giants"

#nurselog #photography #nature #naturephotography #trees #treesontuesday
another example of "nurse log" in practice - a massive (and partially crumbling) tree stump serves as the foundation for a new tree to begin growing from the top - except a closer inspection here shows that at least one tree had previously begun growing from its top, and was ITSELF cut down, but now a third one has begun its life, and at least not so far been felled
September 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
forestjeffrey.bsky.social
Let me introduce you to the ‘Green Dragon’. She’s a #NurseLog
on my hike, a tree that fell possibly 40-60 years ago, slowly breaking up into soil and now home to countless new creatures and plants. Tree seedlings taking root on top as well.

Trees never really die. Mythical dragons of the forest.
A large nurse log in late stages of decay, covered in green moss. The front part looks to me at least like a dragon head. Looking down the length of a nurse log
June 7, 2026 at 11:07 PM
jcanuc.bsky.social
#MundyPark in Coquitlam, BC Canada is a 178 hectare park that was completely logged by 1920 so many of the trees there are over 100 years old. Numerous large stumps remain, some show damage from fires and many are nurse stumps supporting new life.

#nurselog #nursestump
July 25, 2026 at 6:24 PM
oregonwild.bsky.social
What’s changing with the Grasshopper Project?

*Diameter limits to safeguard the largest, oldest trees.
*Protections for cedar and Pacific yew.
*Dropped plans for two old-growth logging units.
*Reduced logging in three more units to prioritize mature forests.
Large trees in the Grasshopper logging project on Mount Hood National Forest. A deer looks back over its shoulder at the camera while standing on the other side of a large fallen nurselog.
January 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
swampvids.bsky.social
Something is almost certainly going to eat this but the swamp log does have a new tree growing on it lately. Looks to be oak, which based on the species having its turn this year, probably red oak. (Yes, the trees keep a calendar that they all agree to abide to and take turns.) #plantsky #nurselog
An oak sapling growing out of a mossy log.
July 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
swampvids.bsky.social
When the swamp log fell, it rammed into a neighbor tree and maimed it severely. Neighbor tree grew roots from its wound and now the swamp log lives on in a way as a nurse log. #earthweek #treehugger #naturevideos #nurselog #deathlovers #timelinecleanse
April 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM