When trees present a safety hazard or are lost to storms, the Carolina Tree Heritage Program on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) transforms the trunks and branches into furniture, sculptures, and other wooden creations.
One of those trees was used to celebrate the life of an associate professor killed in a 2023 school shooting.
Heritage trees are individual trees on the campus that have developed exceptional historical, cultural, or aesthetic value because of their age, descent, legendary stature, contribution to the diversity of the campus landscape, exemplary representation of genus or species, rarity, or association with an important event or person…