Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities

In this workshop, participants will create their own sculptures of saproxylic organisms to take home and learn about dead wood advocacy!The term “saproxylic” refers to creatures who depend on dead trees for their survival. These critters are mostly hidden from view inside logs and hollow trunks, but they form a large and diverse multispecies assemblage that is critical to forest health.Saproxylic creatures are under threat worldwide because dead wood is so often removed and destroyed out of a lack of understanding about its role in the environment. This issue is especially pressing in urban areas like Philadelphia, but fortunately we