It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
July 28, 2011 at 7:00 pm by Amanda Cooke
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Forty sweet gum trees will be planted at the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. - When it comes to the plight of the whitebark pine, what looks like a plagued forest has been plagued by the choices humans have made over the past century.
- Similarly, researchers have been hunting down healthy trees in Seattle, hoping to stall the decline by reproducing and replanting stronger trees.
- We want our playground and trees, say children in Bangalore, India.
- Six hundred poor families in Pakistan are getting land and assistance in exchange for planting indigenous trees.
- Pacific northwest trees struggle for water while standing in it.
- Here are five trees that are helping to end hunger.
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