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Listed and Linked Webpages and Major PDFs
on the TorreyaGuardians.org website
Major Topics Listed on Homepage
• Natural History of Florida Torreya (linked table of contents: 39 topics)
• Endangerment Causes and Cures (in 6 major parts and 3 supplements)
• Deep Time Lags: Lessons from Pleistocene Ecology
• Published Documents on Endangerment Causes
of Torreya taxifolia in Florida
• Applying the Plant and Seed Microbiome Paradigms to the endangered Florida Torreya
• Efforts to Save Torreya taxifolia
(Subsections include USF&WS agency, botanical gardens, Torreya Guardians, Torreya Keepers)
• Torreya Guardians: Advocacy, Actions, Citizen Science
• Torreya Guardians in the Media
• Paleoecology and the Assisted Migration Debate: Why a Deep-Time Perspective is Vital
• Assisted Migration or Assisted Colonization: Chronological History of Terminology
• Bring Torreya taxifolia North — Now (by Barlow and Martin 2004)
• Standards for Assisted Migration of Plants (by Barlow and Martin 2004)
• Could Florida Torreya take the place of Eastern Hemlock?
• Torreya taxifolia to NC in 2008: Photo-essay • Chronology • Reflections (by Barlow)
• Status of Torreya Rewilding Project (2004-2015)
• FOIA Request and Results re ex situ Seed Production (2018)
• Petition to DOWNLIST to threatened (2019) and USF&WS decision (2021)
• Case Study of Agency and Institutional Failure
• LEARNINGS: 2004 to present (reverse chronological)
• REPORTS by volunteers (reverse chronological list of summaries and links)
• PLANTINGS by Torreya Guardians (*Asterisk signifies seed production)
• ALABAMA: Birmingham, Ashland
• FLORIDA: Madison, Shoal Sanctuary
• GEORGIA: Clayton, Columbus
• ILLINOIS: Starhill Forest Arboretum, Morton Arboretum, Alpha, Peoria
• INDIANA
• LOUISIANA: *Caroline Dormon Nature Preserve
• MASSACHUSETTS
• MICHIGAN: Capac, Lake Michigan shore, Grand Rapids, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor,
Leelanau Peninsula
• MISSOURI: Missouri Botanical Garden
• NORTH CAROLINA: *Harbison House, *Biltmore Gardens, *Cowee Valley,
*Tessentee Bottomlands Preserve, *Mount Olive, *Clinton, Greensboro,
Brevard, Franklin,
Spencer,
Waynesville, Lake Junaluska,
Cullowhee,
Wilmington, Highlands Biological Station, North Carolina Arboretum,
Norlina, Mars Hill
• NEW HAMPSHIRE: Mason
• OHIO: *Cleveland, Dawes Arboretum, Secrest Arboretum, Loveland, Dayton
• OREGON: *Medford (exclusively ex-situ seed production from a 1990s planting)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Gladwyne
• TENNESSEE: Ocoee Watershed, Spring City, Unicoi, Cheekwood Estate
• VIRGINIA: Buchanan, Charlottesville, Staunton
• WISCONSIN: Hayward
• Northern Limits Discovered
• Historic Groves documentation (6 naturalized, 5 seed producers, 6 mature/seedless)
• Florida Torreya:
List of Ex-situ Specimens of Torreya taxifolia (by Paul Camire, 2018)
• Propagate, Plant, Tend (linked table of contents: 32 topics)
• Free-Planting Torreya Seeds (directly into forest habitats)
• Short-form Advice for Receiving and Planting Torreya Seeds (by Connie Barlow, 2020)
• VIDEOS of and by Torreya Guardians (39 videos with summaries)
• California's Torreya Tree (and formation of TorreyaGuardiansWest)
• Webpage of founder Don Thomas (Los Gatos, CA)
• Documentation of Wild Trees in California: Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks , Coast Range of north Napa Valley, Coast Range of northwest Napa Valley, Coast Range by Santa Cruz, Mariposa County, Bolinas Ridge & Samuel P. Taylor State Park, Mt. Tamalpais State Park, King Mountain Open Space, Larkspur, Geyserville, Sonoma County, Ft. Bragg
• Scholarly Articles & News on "Assisted Migration"
Torreya Guardians Communications with Federal Agency
• Recovery Plan Update 2010 (comments by or on behalf of Torreya Guardians)
• Comments on Endangered Species Act Regulations 2018 (by Connie Barlow, PDF)
• FOIA data request & results 2018 (re missing documentation of ex situ seed production)
• Recovery Plan Update for Torreya taxifolia (by Connie Barlow, October 2018)
• Volunteer Actions of Torreya Guardians Support New Endangered Species Administrative Policies (Report to Secretary of DOI and Director of F&WS, by Connie Barlow, August 2019)
• Formal request to document seed production ex situ 2018 & 2019
(by Connie Barlow, Sept. 2019)
• Petition to DOWNLIST to threatened (2019) and USF&WS decision (2021)
• RE: Proposed Rule Docket (FWS-HQ-ES-2021-0033) "Endangered and Threatened Species: Designation of Experimental Populations"
(comments by Connie Barlow, August 2022)
• TORREYA TAXIFOLIA "Recovery Plan Ad Hoc Report results"
(Excerpts reprinted by Connie Barlow from the tabular "ECOS" page maintained by the federal agency, February 2023)
• Utilizing Torreya Guardians Experience for SSA and Recovery Planning (by Connie Barlow, July 2024)
• Recovery Planning for "Special Needs" Endangered Species (by Connie Barlow, July 2024)
• Two 2025 documents of "best available science" (prepared by Connie Barlow) were submitted to the agency in PDF for use in the "Five-Year-Update" torreya plan underway: (1) What We Are Learning about Torreya's habitat preferences, best practices for recovery, and adaptive growth forms, and (2) Applying the Plant and Seed Microbiome Paradigms to the endangered Florida Torreya tree. Note: PDFs were made using the two underlying webpages as captured May 2025.
Other Webpages and Significant PDFs
• Reports of Seed Distributions (through 2011)
• Collecting Florida Torreya Seeds at Clinton and Mt. Olive NC (2020)
• Florida Torreya Helped by Youth in Florida (Shoal Sanctuary 2015)
• 2012 paper on "Managed Relocation" by Schwartz et al. (Barlow comments on)
• Volunteers for Assisted Migration & Rewilding
of Torreya taxifolia
• Email correspondence
between Connie Barlow and Prof. Estella Leopold
Other Tree Species with Pages on this Website
• Florida Yew:
List of Ex-situ Specimens of Taxus floridana (by Paul Camire, 2018)
• Growth Capacities of
COAST REDWOOD (by Connie Barlow to support the PropagationNation citizen group in Seattle WA)
• Rehfeldt and Barlow site visit to
"assisted migration" experiment in Idaho
• "Pawpaw Ecological Survey in Michigan" with Background Information, Excerpts of Scholarly Papers,
RECOMMENDATIONS for ensuring POLLINATION in Orchards, and Pawpaw subcanopy thrival despite OVERPOPULATED DEER (by Connie Barlow, 2021-2024)
• Pawpaw Pollinator Watch:
Photos of Spring 2021 pollinator surveillance (by Dallas Ford and Connie Barlow)
• Pawpaw, Asimina triloba, Habitat: Information for Choosing Sites for Wild-Planting Seeds (by Connie Barlow, 2022)
• VIDEOS: Helping Forests Walk (series on youtube by Connie Barlow, 2014-2022, on "assisted migration" for native trees in the USA: field documentation, citizen science, and advocacy)
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