PA DCNR Issues TreeVitalize Challenge to Chester County's Urban Areas
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KENNETT TOWNSHIP, Pa., Sept. 20  /PRNewswire/ -- Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Secretary Michael DiBerardinis is challenging Chester County's 16 urban centers to launch a new phase of TreeVitalize, Governor Edward G.
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Just when it appeared that developers had the all-clear to begin transforming 245 wooded acres in Prince George's County into a new town center with homes, offices, a hotel and retail stores anchored by a Wegmans supermarket, an eleventh-hour appeal threatens the project.
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By Laura Morales, The Miami Herald  Sep. 24--The Miami Commission is scheduled to discuss the issue of revisions to the city's tree ordinance Thursday at City Hall.
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By Travis Talent, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Jun. 1--DAVIDSON COUNTY -- Mother Nature has not been kind to the state so far in 2007.
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By Brian Callaway, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Feb. 22--A developer is forfeiting what potentially could be a multimillion-dollar housing subdivision to boost a Bucks County program aimed at preserving farmland.   Richard Zaveta, who runs Zaveta Construction Co.
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By Ana Ribeiro, Star-News, Wilmington, N.C.  May 25--Thursday's forest fires in Pender and Brunswick counties are a  symptom of a steadily worsening rainfall shortage that has now pushed the area  into drought territory.   The U.S.
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SACRAMENTO -- This city believes an answer for global warming is growing on trees.
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The fires set at a development on a wetland in Maryland have highlighted a long and contentious battle over whether the injection of suburban density belonged there.
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Every second week in October, The Start catches a leaf as it falls from a tree. It has happened in West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Florida and Ohio.
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Increasingly, trees are the new must-have for American cities.
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By Rex Springston and Peter Hardin, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 12--Bigger dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay. Weed-infested forests. Sick fish.   This is scientist Roger Mann's vision of a Virginia afflicted by global warming.   Stressed, dying trees. Forest fires.
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The Octoraro Watershed Association is getting a grant to continue partnering with farmers in Lancaster and Chester counties for reforestation and stream buffer restoration projects.
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By Chrissy Vick, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Dec. 14--While state agencies say they have resolved a 'misunderstanding' over what days heavy firefighting equipment can be moved, area forestry officials remain concerned about their ability to fight fires.
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By Brian Callaway, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Sep. 22--The legal battle over changes to open space protections that would have allowed a new YMCA to be built on preserved land in Richland Township may be drawing to a close.
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By Crystal Bonvillian, Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.  Feb. 12--MILLBROOK -- Millbrook officials are getting into the green.   The City Council is considering an ordinance that would establish an  urban forestry program to plan, plant and maintain trees throughout Millbrook.
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By Amy Armour  A local developer is making an effort to preserve trees and green space for a planned 132-acre residential community in Wentzville. But this won't be a typical residential community -- almost half of the project will be designated community green space.
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By Jon Rutter  Infrastructure of trees, wetlands, streams is topic at Feb. 13 public meeting  A renowned livable communities expert will help the Lancaster County Planning Commission shape a new "green infrastructure" plan during an interactive public meeting Feb.