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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Participation Nation

Replanting Trees In New Orleans, La.

City Park in New Orleans.

August 25, 2012 Hike For KaTREEna is dedicated to reforesting the city and have helped to plant 13,400 trees since 2006.

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Saturday, April 07, 2012

The Salt

Guerrilla Grafters Bring Forbidden Fruit Back To City Trees

Guerrilla grafter Tara Hui grafts a fruiting pear branch onto an ornamental fruit tree in the San Francisco Bay Area. She doesn't want the location known because the grafting is illegal.

April 7, 2012 In many metropolitan areas, urban foresters ensure flowering fruit trees don't bear fruit to keep it from being trampled into slippery sidewalk jelly. But a group of fruit fans in the San Francisco Bay Area is surreptitiously grafting fruit-bearing tree limbs onto those fruitless trees.

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Friday, August 05, 2011

The Two-Way

DuPont Pulls Herbicide Blamed For Tree Deaths

Damage done to these Norway spruce trees has been blamed on contact with Imprelis. DuPont is pulling the herbicide.

August 5, 2011 DuPont Co. plans to pull a new herbicide from the market, after it was blamed for damaging or killing thousands of trees. Since the EPA approved the weedkiller Imprelis for sale last October, it has become the target of several lawsuits.

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Thursday, July 07, 2011

The Two-Way

Drastic Cutting At The White House: Crews Remove Damaged Tree

Coming down: Today (July 7, 2011), the tree was felled in pieces.

July 7, 2011 As President Obama and Congressional leaders were inside the White House today trying to agree on ways to cut the federal budget, some serious trimming was going on just outside.

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