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Community Rallies to Preserve Tree
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This story made quite a splash in the tree world, but probably didn’t get much media coverage yet.
This is a success story of an historic osage orange tree preserved in northwestern Illinois. Within just a few days, professionals and community tree advocates rallied to not only convince the village of Kewanee to spare the tree, but rounded up professional expertise, services and a fund raising effort for the tree’s ongoing care.
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One Response to “Community Rallies to Preserve Tree”
December 15th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
This tree is uniquely midwestern in its historical value. It is heartening to see such an outpouring of support from professional arborists and civic leaders in saving the tree. It is still at risk – if it is determined to be structurally unsound – but lots of people are working together to care for the tree.