Tree Over Rutledge Grave to Get Some Preventative Maintenance
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By CHRIS YOUNG OUTDOORS EDITOR  A tulip tree that towers over Oakland Cemetery near Ann Rutledge's grave in Petersburg is due for some preventive maintenance.
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In what is a very long-term project, Chopwell Wood will be allowed to return to what it was before the days of Forestry Commission conifer-planting.   There will be a gradual thinning of conifers, with trees being allowed to regenerate naturally, backed up by some broadleaf planting.
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Q. I have a dogwood tree I planted 20 years ago. I have always had a small amount of mulch around it so I have never mowed close to it. I recently noticed that it is losing bark around the base of the trunk.
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Apple trees have been planted, wood fences restored and power lines buried in recent years to transform the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg to the way it looked when Union and Confederate forces clashed on farmers' fields in 1863.
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The Christmas tree decorations were being rehung at Pasco County buildings Friday after the reversal of a county attorney's finding that the trees were unacceptable religious symbols.
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By The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 10--Pierce County will hold a tree planting along Clover Creek today in its effort to restore the watershed.   The event will be from 9 a.m. to noon at the intersection of 136th Street East and A Street in Parkland.
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DUNCANNON, Pa. - Residents of this central Pennsylvania community are marking the holidays with a 4-foot potted evergreen tree instead of the 20-foot tree that has been used for the past eight years, because of a feud between the borough council and a local business.
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By Sharon Kiley Mack, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec.
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A tree care company based is helping the Parks and Recreation Department to make genetic reproductions of 25 "historic" trees across New York City using grafting.
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By MARY HURST  FERNANDINA BEACH - Florida Department of Transportation engineers told city commissioners Tuesday they will fix the damaged Egans Creek Greenway south of Jasmine Street, where about 50 acres of red maples have died because of saltwater intrusion.
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By C.R. Roberts, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Dec. 16--There's a tree on the roof of your garage. All that food in the freezer might have to be thrown out. Your phone and cable TV are still out. You might need to hire a contractor to repair storm damage.
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The federal government has finished a plan to try to save an endangered plant that is found only in Tennessee.
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By Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Dec. 17--By Maureen Houston Two sweet gum trees towering over Elna Rosenberger's yellow frame home in Cahokia came from southeastern Kentucky as saplings. So did the tulip poplar in back.
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By Eric Olson  OMAHA, Neb. - Fred Jaeger doesn't care what the National Arbor Day Foundation says. He's not going to attempt planting magnolia trees on his land in a Utah mountain valley.   He'll stick with Canadian chokecherries and ash.
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By Dania Akkad, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Jun. 9--Neighbors of one of the last pieces of undeveloped land in the city of Monterey are concerned that the stretch of dense pine forest along Highway 1 may be replaced with a high-density development.
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By Nzong Xiong, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 9--Many local nurseries are receiving their new bare-root fruit trees from now through the end of January.
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A giant sequoia believed to be the second-largest tree in the world may not live much longer after suffering damage from heavy snow and strong wind, according to officials at Sequoia National Park.