Backyard Trees Need Special Care
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By The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Dec. 16--Citrus trees are popular backyard plants in and near Stanislaus County, despite their tiny role in the region's commercial agriculture.
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The number of Christmas tree farms in Louisiana has fallen like needles from an unwatered tree. There will be at least one less next year.
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The story of a special Christmas treeâ¦ and wishes for a happy holiday season.
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By Donna Vavala, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Jun. 10--Bob Silverio has an expensive, little hobby -- growing bonsai trees. About five years ago, a co-worker gave Silverio a small bonsai tree for his birthday.  "I didn't want it to die, so I did a lot of research," he said.
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By MICHAEL CASEY  CHEME, Thailand - For much of his life, Viroj Dedsongprak paid little attention to the mangrove forests that surrounded his Thai village. He thought nothing of it when neighbors chopped down trees for firewood or plowed them under for shrimp ponds.
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AMANDA, Ohio - Sarah Young woke one morning to find her buckeye tree stripped bare of nuts. Was it the work of busy squirrels or a buckeye bandit? Young suspects the latter...
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PERRYSBURG, Ohio - It was a clear-cut error: A state worker mowed down 28,000 young trees that had been planted as part of a $33,000 highway beautification project.    The only thing left behind were signs that read "Do not mow or spray."  "Shame on us...
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By TONY DAVIS, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  The Northwest Side's cacti and desert trees stand so dense that sometimes it's impossible to squeeze through them.
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By David Usborne in New York  There is something doleful about the whispering of the white- barked aspen trees that carpet the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It is a sound of sickness and death.
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Now that the Thanksgiving feast is over, many people are getting ready to deck the halls and put up their Christmas tree. Some Christmas tree farmers are working even harder to compete with artificial trees.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 21  /PRNewswire/ -- A dinosaur-era tree that was believed to have been extinct for 2 million years will be available for a limited time to U.S. residents who can help ensure its survival.
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An avenue of trees that are showing the early signs of Dutch elm disease are to be surveyed.
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Many homes and gardens play host to an increasing number of hazardous plants, and children are most often at risk.
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Faced with the growing tide of imported Christmas trees, Mexico has set a goal of growing its own. It's not so much a nationalistic stance as a tacit acknowledgment that the Christmas tree, once alien to Mexican tradition, is here to stay.
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By Charles Sheehan, Chicago Tribune  Jan. 31--Chicago-area officials say the invasion of the emerald ash borer is threatening to chew up suburban forestry budgets, as well as trees.
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But to Christmas tree farmers like the owners of Butler Tree Farm in Dowagiac and Pinecrest Farms in Galien, it&#39;s much, much more.
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Increasingly, trees are the new must-have for American cities.