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Hug A Tree? Give Me A Break! It 's Arbor Day Again - Page 2


© Barbara M. Martin
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No matter how hard we try, sometimes nature thwarts our best intentions. If you have ever lived with a dangerous tree, or lived with the aftermath of storm damage and destruction of a tree, or even lost a tree to that awful and vague "shade tree decline" you will have learned something many of us take for granted most of the time : trees are living things. They change over time.

So treasure "your" trees.

Does that begin to explain the age-old connection between people and trees? I'll have lots more about trees next week. And hey, if you haven't tried it lately, go hug one!

(Or at least run your finger tips over the bark!)

*Editor's Note. Unfortunately, those superb links are no more. Here are some substitutes current as of 5/30/98.

Tree Selection one of an excellent series of articles from International Society of Arboriculture

Pointers on Selecting Trees

Using Native Trees with common sense

Native Trees for the Landscape

Comments on Some Commonly Grown Trees

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Here's the follow-up discussion on this article: View all related messages

11.   May 9, 1997 3:34 PM
Excellent! I'm glad you shared the official PLT site and I have bookmarked it. Thanks for the welcome back too, I had a wonderful time. Got to see Bob Dylan while I was away. ...

-- posted by Deborah_Jeter


10.   May 9, 1997 5:56 AM
Hi Deborah! Welcome back! Thanks for the info. Both Project Wild and Project Learning Tree sound fantastic and exactly what I was hoping for. Interesting I had never heard of either one before. ...

-- posted by Cottage_Garden


9.   May 6, 1997 8:55 PM
Ok, Barb! I've got the goods now. I found the manuals that have helped me immensely and they are Project Wild and PLT, or better known as Project Learning ...

-- posted by Deborah_Jeter


8.   Apr 29, 1997 7:57 PM
Sure thing, Barb! It'll be next week before I can get anything to you because I'm leaving town in the morning to go to the Handy Awards in Memphis, Tennessee. I'll be gone for the rest of the week.
G ...

-- posted by Deborah_Jeter


7.   Apr 29, 1997 6:33 PM
Deborah! TIA--Sounds great! I usually teach grown-ups but I keep finding that hands-on type activities are a whole lot better than a dry lecture and since I don't know much about resources for teach ...

-- posted by Cottage_Garden





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