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Plantings, orchards, and groves that neighbors put in the ground. 11 verified stories. Stories come from Spokane, Surrey, and Greensboro. Each one is checked and linked to the original report.
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ScienceThe Inland Northwest Land Conservancy and wildlife crews are restoring 10 acres of floodplain on the Little Spokane River. Volunteers from age 6 to 80, including refugee teens, came to plant.
Verified · The Spokesman-Review
CommunityThe fifth annual planting at the Surrey park added native trees and shrubs along Highway 1, part of a month of volunteer plantings across Metro Vancouver parks.
Verified · CBC
ScienceJohn Smolinsky of Earthbound Forestry uses his one-ton horse on small, steep, and sensitive woodlots. A horse compacts the soil far less than a heavy skidder.
Verified · Vermont Public
ScienceThe DNR says partners, from private landowners to people planting on their own, helped reach the milestone. New trees also went in at Havenwoods, the state's only urban state forest, in Milwaukee.
Verified · WPR (Wisconsin Public Radio)
CommunityBrad Robbins, whose father started the family tree farm in 1975, was named Southern Regional Tree Farmer of the Year for sustainable management, with three generations still on the land.
Verified · KATV
CommunityThe Fond du Lac Band, Duluth, the Minnesota DNR, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service held a low-intensity burn on 17 acres, the first there in 180 years.
Verified · MPR News
CommunityMilo, wiliwili, a Moreton Bay fig, and other trees went in at Halewikio Place, the first step toward Ke Ola O ʻAiea ʻOhana Park, with a $34,000 urban-forestry grant.
Verified · Hawaii News Now
AnimalsGuano mining left the Great Barrier Reef cay nearly bare. After decades of replanting, about 100,000 black noddies nest there each year.
Verified · ABC News
ScienceThe small temple beside the Kapersburg fort was only inches underground. An inscription suggests it was dedicated to Mars, and a figurine is likely Victoria.
Verified · Smithsonian Magazine
ScienceStudents at Mount St. Joseph Academy care for nine chestnut trees, and seeds from the grove have been planted at six other Vermont schools.
Verified · WCAX
CommunityWhat began as a Kansas City idea 14 years ago is now more than 14,000 trees in 847 orchards. The fruit is free to pick.
Verified · KCUR