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An Arbor Day Tradeoff: new acacia and declining whitebark pine
Posted on April 24, 2009
Earth Day gets all the pub, but I've always been kinda partial to Arbor Day. I mean, really, how often do you even think about trees?This Arbor Day, features a couple of interesting tree stories:In the journal Science a team of Swedish botanists describe a new tree species. Well, new to scientists anyway, I am sure folks in Somalia have always been well-aware of the pink flowering acacia that is prevalent throughout a war-torn, hilly 3,100 square mile region of their country.The news is a lot less joyful around the whitebark pine tree. NRDC has petitioned to get the widespread high altitude sp...
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