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[Environmental]
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10/10/2004
9:10:59 am EDT
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Stumping For The Trees
Author: Virginia Grantier Source: Bismarck Tribune (ND)
Title: STUMPING FOR THE TREES
Grandma caught on fire a couple of years ago.
Lightning hit her at the tip-top, where the birds were nesting, and the resulting fire burned down her center trunk all the way to the ground, about 100 feet. It took area firefighters about three or fours hours to put her out. They even had to use foam, remembers Virgil Johnson, 74.
But "Grandma Tree," which has been called that since who knows when, is a cottonwood about 100 feet high. The tree, north of Bismarck near River Road, continues to live and leaf out despite nature's direct hit. And the tree continues to be the best play fort around. With her trunk measuring 26 feet in circumference, the inside part of her hollow expanse becomes a fort. Now, however, kids leave sooty, despite Virgil Johnson's warning for kids to stay away from deteriorating Grandma, one of many cottonwoods he has on his place.
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| Aww | Oct 10th. at 5:41:52 pm EDT |
by LB (NJ) - wc_xemail
What a cute story. The best way to make a community environmentally aware is truly with the children, and "Spirit Woods" certainly sounds as if it is doing just that. We know what else the cross-section shape of a cottonwood branch is...
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