"There will be an oak tree
planted there for each Clevelander who makes the supreme sacrifice.
They bought an old farmhouse and rebuilt it board by board,
planted a garden, then started a home-schooling program for Katie, now 14 and recovering from multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), and Cassie, 9.
The researchers collected seeds from these crosses and
planted them in the woods in either sun or shade.
AMERICAN FORESTS' 5year planting at Hakalau yielded a mix of nearly 155,000 native trees, the vast majority of those koa, including the millionth tree
planted under the Global ReLeaf Forests program.
So he
planted the insect-eaters in a moist, sunny area in his backyard so he could watch them pig (uh, bug) out.
In early June an alert was issued on the website to draw attention to the recordsetting size of Florida's wildfires, to report on projects the organization
planted following the major fires there in 1998, and to appeal for support to do more this coming winter.
Nobody
planted those woodland acres, yet they are beautiful .all year long, presenting interesting color combinations that change with every season.
A canola field
planted with one variety sprouted hybrid volunteers that combined the herbicide resistances of their parents, Linda Hall of Agriculture Canada in Edmonton, Alberta, and her colleagues reported in 2001.
The Civilian Conservation Corps, commonly called the CCC,
planted 2.3 million acres in the decade before World War II.
This committee categorizes as weeds many prized and commercially popular garden staples--from European buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica), a Eurasian immigrant
planted as specimen trees or dense hedges, to butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii), a shrub promoted for its fragrant, bright-colored flowers.
I put a cheap edging along the sidewalk to keep my now precious soil in the bed and
planted starts of lettuce, radish, nasturtiums and later six corn plants, bush beans, chives and bunching onions.
Efforts during the 20th century include the planting of American elms from the Capitol to the Washington Monument by the McMillan Commission, headed by Michigan Senator James McMillan, chair of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, In 1912 Japan gave the United States its now-famous Japanese flowering cherries, which were
planted along the Tidal Basin (see
Compared with bean plants grown drugfree, those
planted in sandy loam soil containing an antibiotic were shorter, weighed less, produced smaller yields of beans, fixed less soil nitrogen, and picked up fewer nutrients from their environment.
"Trees
planted in Wildfire ReLeaf restoration projects help nature regenerate and restore ecosystems scorched by catastrophic wildfire and also return native species in decline or displaced by non-native species," says Karen Fedor, director of AMERICAN FORESTS' Global ReLeaf program.
The concept was simple: For each $1 children raised, AMERICAN FORESTS
planted a tree in a damaged forest ecosystem.
