Trees That Advanced Civilization Are Now Threatened

For his book "The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees," Robert Penn set off across Britain and beyond in search of craftsmen to help him fashion an extraordinary variety of artifacts—including a toboggan, a hurling stick, and a Louisville Slugger baseball bat—out of a single mature ash tree. Ash-rimmed wheels carried King Tut, ash arrows won battles, and ash bats drove in home runs—but ash trees could disappear.

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