Home●Submit a Tribute●Tributes●Links Photo Gallery All the photos from the tribute page in one place 🔍 🔍 🔍 Hilary Hug welcomes attendees at the Celebration of Dave's Life. 🔍 Hostess Hilary Hug ends the program at the celebration of Dave's life by thanking attendees. 🔍 Emily Linderman, mistress of ceremonies at the Celebration, delivers the invocation. 🔍 Longtime friend and colleague David Schrom reminds celebration attendees of Dave's broad ecological analysis and deep commitment to humanity. 🔍 Hostess Hilary Hug and Mistress of Ceremonies Emily Linderman enjoy a moment of mutual appreciation at the conclusion of the program at the celebration of Dave's life. 🔍 🔍 🔍 🔍 🔍 🔍 Dave’s favorite self-portrait (c. 2022) 🔍 Dave's favorite blue oak "brain tree" 🔍 Baby Dave (1966) (Lynn Abraham) 🔍 Young boy Dave (c. 1969) (Lynn Abraham) 🔍 Dave (c. 1969) 🔍 Dave in suit 🔍 Dave with father, Dr. Charles Muffly (c. 1973) 🔍 Dave (c. 1974) 🔍 At entry to Stanford (1985) 🔍 As an undergrad with Stanford buddies (1984) (Chris Shen) 🔍 In the kitchen at Whitman House, Stanford (1985) 🔍 Viking hat in the DSQ (1985) 🔍 Elfin Dave taking a break from homework (1985) 🔍 Laughing with Shen (1986) 🔍 Leading Earth Day Magic watering crew (1990) 🔍 Stanford friends Lippy, Ron, Shen, Lynda, Ian, Dave, and Kelly at Magic (early 1990s) 🔍 Magic launches Peninsula Releaf in the news (1991) 🔍 Pioneering tree shelters for oak regeneration with Joan Schwan (c. 1992) (Joan Schwan) 🔍 Stanford Dish landscape 🔍 Working in the Magic kitchen (c. 1993) (Joan Schwan) 🔍 With the Magic family (c. 1992) (John Hagen) 🔍 Drying figs on the roof (c. 1992) 🔍 Returning from the food store with provisions for the Magic community (c. 1993) 🔍 Making music with Jeff Hook (c. 1994) 🔍 Dave repairing a friend's bike (c. 1993) (Heather Goss) 🔍 Loading into buckets topsoil to be used in a foothills oak planting (c. 1993). 🔍 Ready to transport Stanford classmate Shen's car from CA to Boise (c. 1994) 🔍 At Magic with Hilary Hug (c. 1994) 🔍 Making Magic's computers run smoothly with Phil Geller (c. 1994) (Phil Geller) 🔍 Demonstrating fine points of Magic's oak planting technique (c. 1997) 🔍 Teaching neighbors to plant a street tree (c. 1997) (Kent Schneeveis) 🔍 Magicians gather for a winter solstice "advance" at a rural camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains (c. 1997) 🔍 Welcoming newborn twins to Magic (1999) 🔍 With friend Lynn Abraham (c. 2000) (Lynn Abraham) 🔍 Salvaging bare root fruit trees for Fruition project with Joan Schwan (c. 1996) 🔍 Magic's Fruition Program in the news (2000) 🔍 Distributing bare root fruit trees through Magic's Fruition program (c. 2000) 🔍 Net-zero (before it was a “thing”) arborist (c. 2000) 🔍 Sitting for a Magic family portrait (c. 2001) (Phil Geller) 🔍 Hilary Bayer "helping" Dave plant acorns for a Holm oak hedge (2001) 🔍 Magic family portrait composed and photographed by a visiting professional (c. 2001) 🔍 Uncle Dave, Little Hil, and "Big Mama" Heather (c. 2001) (Heather Brady DeQuincy) 🔍 Love you, Dave! with Heather Brady DeQuincy (c. 2001) (Heather Brady DeQuincy) 🔍 Heather and Dave (c. 2002) 🔍 Joyfully teaching Heather Brady DeQuincy about oaks (c. 2002) (Heather Brady DeQuincy) 🔍 Sky Rider Dave, Santa Cruz (2001) 🔍 One of many foothills oak fieldwork crews Dave led (c. 2002) 🔍 Enjoying a laugh with fellow Magic residents (Marilyn Cornelius, Hilary Hug, Ronald Feichtmeir) and visiting parents (c. 2002) (Ronald Feichtmeir) 🔍 Teaching novice squirrels Peter Stair & Chris Tyler at a favorite apricot tree (2003) (Chris) 🔍 Flying (c. 2005) 🔍 Soundwall before Canopy 900+ tree planting (c. 2004) (Jeffrey Hook) 🔍 Soundwall five years after Canopy 900+ tree planting (c. 2009) (Jeffrey Hook) 🔍 Canopy soundwall planting ten years later: proof of Dave's concept (c. 2014) (Jeffrey Hook) 🔍 Leading the Canopy soundwall planting (c. 2005) 🔍 Canopy staff (Genevra Ornelas & Catherine Martineau) at the sound wall planting (c. 2005) 🔍 Teaching at Canopy event (2007) 🔍 Logo of Dave's Oaktopia venture 🔍 Oaktopia nursery at Green Valley Village (c. 2008) 🔍 Showing healthy tree roots to potential Oaktopia nursery buyer (c. 2010) 🔍 Lunch at Green Valley Village (c. 2010) 🔍 At wedding of "Tree Girl" (c. 2010) 🔍 Canopy California Ave Tree Planting (2010) 🔍 Demonstrating at Canopy California Avenue Planting (2010) 🔍 Canopy California Ave Tree Planting Crew (2010) (Jimi Scheid) 🔍 Pruning trees on California Avenue (2013) 🔍 With volunteers and a seedling planted along the bike path near Fairfield School (The Davis Enterprise, 1 Feb 2011) (Janet Mercurio) 🔍 Bike path tree canopy near Fairfield School 15 years later (2026) (Janet Mercurio) 🔍 Acknowledgement of role in bike path tree plantings (Davis Enterprise, 2011) (Janet Mercurio) 🔍 From Davis Enterprise article about volunteer tree planting (2011) (Janet Mercurio) 🔍 With college friends in Southern California (2012) 🔍 During Southern California road trip (2012) 🔍 Reuniting with Stanford buddies (2012) 🔍 Leading a Dish hill tour of his trees for Stanford buddies who'd returned for a class reunion. (Kirsten) 🔍 Explaining a pruning cut to a tree at college classmate Ron's house near DC to Ron and another classmate, cross-country road-trip partner Shen (2024) (Kirsten) 🔍 Surveying trees for City of Menlo Park (c. 2013) 🔍 Planting acorns with Susan Rosenberg (2013) 🔍 With long-time dear friend Lynn Abraham at awards ceremony honoring Dave (c. 2015) (Lynn Abraham) 🔍 At Stanford with renowned Irish tree expert Thomas Pakenham (c. 2015) 🔍 Teaching Trees of Stanford class from a squirrel perch (2015) (Devaki Bhaya) 🔍 Leading Stanford class tour for Professor Devaki Bhaya (2015) 🔍 Reading with Heather's Sydney (c.2016) 🔍 Teaching about oak hybridization (2016) 🔍 During tree installation at Apple Park (c. 2015) 🔍 Wired magazine dubs Dave Apple Park's Tree Whisperer (2017) 🔍 Dave's trees being grow for Apple at Devil Mountain Nursery (c. 2017) 🔍 Apple Park: Dave’s vision realized 🔍 Dave loved comfortable shoes (c. 2017) 🔍 With a favorite car at his Santa Barbara home (c. 2017) 🔍 With friend Sairus Patel flanking Hilary and Jen Bayer after their "lightning talk" at the International Oak Conference (2018) (Sairus Patel) 🔍 Leading International Oak Society tour of Stanford foothills plantings (2018) 🔍 With International Oak Society members after tour of Magic's Stanford foothills plantings (2018) 🔍 With Lynn Abraham and Joan (Dave's mom) at her 90th birthday (2018) (Lynn Abraham) 🔍 Canopy fundraising event featuring Dave: "Meet the Tree Whisperer" (2019) 🔍 Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian introduces Dave at Canopy's "Meet the Tree Whisperer" event (2019) 🔍 As "Tree Whisperer" at Canopy event (2019) 🔍 Dave was featured in podcasts and webinars hosted by Pacific Horticulture magazine (2019) 🔍 Frame from "Nutjob" a short film about Dave (2019) (Andy Hill) 🔍 Leading East Palo Alto Mayor's tree planting at 5th Annual MLK Day of Service (2020) 🔍 Acorn collecting in the Southwest (c. 2021) 🔍 Bounty from weeks of acorn collecting 🔍 Cruising with Art Ludwig to Ecstatic Dance in Santa Barbara (c. 2021) (Art Ludwig) 🔍 Hosting Magic friends (Andrew Nepomuceno, Clem Mainpin, Shubham Patil, Hilary Bayer) in Santa Barbara (2021) (Clem) 🔍 We learned and laughed together. (Nikki C. Johnson) 🔍 A gentle laugh during a lively conversation on a beautiful California day. (Nikki C. Johnson) 🔍 Dave Muffly in my winter coat and sandals (Nikki C. Johnson) 🔍 Contemplative on a winter day (Nikki C. Johnson) 🔍 At Stanford's Carnegie Institute planning tree programs with Devaki Bhaya and Sairus Patel (c. 2022) (Sairus Patel) 🔍 Extolling the virtues of evergreen oaks in dry climates (2022) 🔍 Celebrating success of Magic experiment with oaks for climate resilience (2022) 🔍 Leading Oakland tree tour with Gordan Matassa, Tina McKeand, and others (2022) 🔍 "Climate debasement drives tree migration" from Dave's presentation to California Native Plant Society 🔍 Dave's future oaks (c. 2022) 🔍 Extolling virtues of cork oaks in the Stanford landscape to students (2022) (Devaki Bhaya) 🔍 At the Santa Barbara Public Market (c. 2022) (Sairus Patel) 🔍 Giving an Apple Park tour to Stanford clients (2023) (Drew Brown) 🔍 With Stanford mentor Herb Fong (2023) (Herb Fong) 🔍 In Santa Barbara with Magic friends (Agastya Kalra, David Schrom, Hilary Bayer, Hilary Hug) (2024) (Hilary Bayer) 🔍 Supervising a friendly visiting plumber (David Schrom) in Santa Barbara (2024) 🔍 Giving one of many presentations at Magic about oaks and climate debasement (2024) 🔍 Dave the auto aficionado (c. 2024) (Sairus Patel) 🔍 Waiting for a friend in the Stanford Arboretum (c. 2024) (Sairus Patel) 🔍 Singing on a road trip to collect acorns—frame from "Oak Nut," a short film about Dave (2024) 🔍 Amy Stewart devoted an entire chapter in The Tree Collectors to Dave (2024) 🔍 "Steve Jobs's Arborist" from The Tree Collectors (2024) 🔍 Tree work on Borzekowski Farm in Maryland (2024) 🔍 Tree work on Borzekowski Farm in Maryland (2024) 🔍 Tree work on Borzekowski Farm in Maryland (2024) 🔍 On the road collecting acorns (2024) 🔍 In Santa Barbara on his rebounder (c. 2025) (Ali Cetin) 🔍 Uncle Dave with newborn Harper Hug (2004) (Harper Hug) 🔍 Uncle Dave with 21 year-old Harper Hug (2025) (Harper Hug) 🔍 Admiring fruits of his Apple Park labors (2025) (Devaki Bhaya) 🔍 Leaves from the diverse oaks of Apple Park (2025) 🔍 Leading Stanford student tour of Apple Park with Professor Devaki Bhaya (November 2025) 🔍 Waxing enthusiastic about fungus-resistant sycamores (2025) 🔍 Photo by Dave of autumn color on a Fruition tree he planted at Magic (November 15, 2025) 🔍 Sixty acorn cupules and a flame, remembering Dave's almost 60 years (November 24, 2025) (Emily Linderman) 🔍 Shecen Monastery Ritual in Dave's honor (December 3, 2025) 🔍 Outdoor escstatic dance hosted in Dave's honor (2025) 🔍 A last farewell from Emily Linderman (January 2026) (Emily Linderman) 🔍 Canopy event to honor Dave's life (2026) 🔍 Canopy event honoring Dave (March 2026) 🔍 Apricot tree Dave pruned the week before he died now in bloom (March 2026) (Kathy Hug) 🔍 Tens of thousands of fruit trees that Dave distributed, planted, and cared for bloom each year (March 2026) (Kathy Hug) 🔍 Apricot blossoms (March 2026) (Kathy Hug) 🔍 One of several trees Dave anonymously gave to Harbin Hot Springs (2026) 🔍 Marker at a tree Dave gave anonymously to Harbin Hot Springs (2026) 🔍 Acorns of Q. castaneifolia, a Dave favorite species (Justin Riddiough) 🔍 Dave Muffly, 1965-2025 🔍 🔍 Invitation to the Celebration of Dave's life 🔍 Friends of Dave take to the Dish hill to appreciate his legacy there as part of the celebration of his life. 🔍 Program for the celebration of Dave's life 🔍 Display of Dave memorabilia at the celebration of his life; oak-studded landscape with squirrel (Dave) by Elise Dimick 🔍 Hilary Hug welcomes attendees at the Celebration of Dave's Life. 🔍 Emily Linderman, mistress of ceremonies at the Celebration, delivers the invocation. 🔍 Some of the more than 30 people who attended via Zoom the celebration of Dave's life. 🔍 David Schrom speaks at the celebration of Dave's life about Dave's broad and deep ecological analysis and his wholehearted commitment to philanthropy. 🔍 Friend since Stanford undergrad days, Chris Shen, describes Dave's pivot from mechanical engineering to ecology. 🔍 At the celebration of Dave's life, partner in arboricultural revolution Dave Teuschler recounts their exploits. 🔍 Lynn Abraham strikes a classic Dave pose at the celebration of Dave's life. 🔍 Lynn Abraham emulates Dave's emphatic delivery at the celebration of his life. 🔍 Lynn Abraham reminds attendees at the celebration of Dave's life how he brought his tree talks to life with engaging use of props. 🔍 Longtime friend and colleague David Schrom reminds celebration attendees of Dave's broad ecological analysis and deep commitment to humanity. 🔍 Longtime friend and fellow music lover David Saxton leads attendees at the celebration of Dave's life in singing "Ripple," a Dave favorite. 🔍 Hostess Hilary Hug ends the program at the celebration of Dave's life by thanking attendees. 🔍 Hostess Hilary Hug and Mistress of Ceremonies Emily Linderman enjoy a moment of mutual appreciation at the conclusion of the program at the celebration of Dave's life. 🔍 Doug Wildman's oak cake for the celebration of Dave's life. 🔍 Oak habitat stewardship volunteers cared for Dave trees as part of the celebration of his life. 🔍 Emily Griswold, another partner in arboricultural revolution prunes a young Dave tree during the fieldwork celebrating his life. 🔍 Heather Brady, Hilary Hug, and Lynn Abraham, all dear long-term friends of Dave, led in organizing the celebration of his life. 🔍 A heartfelt thank-you to all who participated in honoring Dave Muffly's memory by participating in the celebration of his life. (painting, "Homage to Squirrel Dave," by Elise Dimick) 🔍 Feeling the timelessness of trees and remembering Dave's contributions to them (Paul Adrian) 🔍 Ethiopian Orthodox Church forest, another approach to protecting native tree species (Paul Adrian) 🔍 Friends of Dave since college, Ron and Dina Borzekowski, remembering him at the celebration of his life. 🔍 🔍 🔍 Lynn Abraham leads attendees at the celebration of Dave's life in a deep-throated collective vocalization to remember his"radio voice."
