A millennia-old arboricultural practice is alive and well at the SER-UW Native Plant Nursery: Coppicing.  Humans have coppiced trees for 10,000 years, estimates esteemed arborist and author William Logan Bryant. His recent book, Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees, details this traditional practice with passion and reverence. In the pre-Industrial era all over the globe, coppicing was the cutting back of a tree or shrub close to ground level in order to obtain a crucial, life-giving harvest: stems, canes and branches to be used for firewood, to build fences, furniture and bridges, and to produce baskets and rope, among many other essentials.