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Trees!

Trees: Tree Truths

Trees: Growing a Better Peach

Trees: More Than Just Wood

Trees: Honor the Trees

Trees: Why So Colorful?

Trees: Home Sweet Tree

  • Tree Truths
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  • Growing a Better Peach
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  • More Than Just Wood
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  • Honor the Trees
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  • Why So Colorful?
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  • Home Sweet Tree
Trees [trēs]
Large perennial woody plants.

The oldest living thing on Earth is a tree. It is also the heaviest and the tallest. Trees keep our air clean, reduce noise pollution, improve water quality, help prevent erosion, create shade, provide food, building materials, homes for wildlife, and make our world beautiful.

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