Where NOT to plant the endangered Florida Torreya tree

Photos and videos from 2007 through 2025 are aggregated here tree by tree to offer a natural history and oral history opportunity to understand several factors that make flat upland plantings in the southern-most states lethal for torreya, absent irrigation and occasional application of agricultural lime. This contrasts with the ongoing success of downslope and ravine plantings at the two nature preserves featured here: Shoal Sanctuary in the western Florida panhandle and Caroline Dormon Nature Preserve in northern Louisiana. TIMECODED table of topics: 00:01 Introduction by Connie Barlow, founder of Torreya Guardians. She speaks of the importance of combining natural history observations with long-term oral histories to best understand the multiple factors influencing the life and death of this endangered species. 09:12 Recommendation: Both Shoal Sanctuary and Dormon Preserve should be officially designated as "experimental populations" under the terms of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endange... 10:32 SITE #1: Shoal Sanctuary FL, 80 miles west of torreya's "historical range" 39:07 SITE #2: Caroline Dormon Nature Preserve in northern Louisiana 56:35 CONCLUSIONS by Connie Barlow and advocacy for (1) officially designating both preserves as "experimental populations" and (2) having seeds from the 2 ex situ plantings of wild genetics in northern Georgia be donated for planting in the ravines and other downslopes of both preserves. The full site visit videos of each preserve can be accessed via the VIDEOS page of Torreya Guardians: https://www.torreyaguardians.org/vide... For Shoal Sanctuary: episodes 5, 6, 31a, 31b. For Dormon Preserve: episodes 30a and 30b. Shoal Sanctuary torreya webpage: https://www.torreyaguardians.org/limi... Dormon Preserve torreya webpage: https://www.torreyaguardians.org/loui... Torreya Guardians homepage: https://www.torreyaguardians.org/ Torreya Guardians playlist on youtube:    • Torreya taxifolia - assisted migration   Torreya taxifolia wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torreya... Torreya Guardians wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torreya...