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    Trees and Wildlife

    What a tree is to a bird

    By Arbor Day Foundation | August 13, 2019

    Guest post by Gillian Martin of Tree Care for Birds. Not everyone cares about birds.  Understandably, some are even considered a nuisance and pose very real conflicts for people.  But pause to consider this.  Birds represent an epic spanning about 160 million years when archeological findings reveal they first evolved from dinosaurs.  They are, however, products of evolutionary events both prior and after that time.  But seen or unseen, appreciated or not, birds are a long-tested product of Nature and…

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  • Tree of the Week

    Gray Dogwood: Fruit for Birds

    Cornus racemose Similar to other dogwoods, the gray dogwood offers many of the same appealing traits that attract admirers to other dogwoods. Native to the United States, the gray dogwood—also known as the panicled…

    By Sheereen Othman | May 3, 2016