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Winter Tree Identification Class this Saturday
Winter Tree Identification at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia Instructor: Linda Chafin, Conservation Botanist Saturday, January 21, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm Visitor Ctr, Classroom 2 Members $45; non-members $50 Students will learn the basics of identifying deciduous trees in their dorman...
Tagged: tree identification, georgia trees, botanical gardens, athens tree
UGA Study: beetles could help save hemlocks
ATHENS — A new University of Georgia study examines how to fight the bug that has killed thousands of hemlock trees across the state. The study shows that the ladybird beetle was successful in stemming the spread of the woolly adelgid but the predator beetle must be released in the upper crown of...
Tagged: hemlock, tree preservation, tree service, beetles
Annual Athens-Clarke County Community Tree Fair set for November 5th, 2011
Please join us for the Annual Athens-Clarke County Community Tree Fair Saturday November 5, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. RAIN OR SHINE! at Bishop Park – next to the Farmers Market. There will be free parking. Events of the Tree Fair include: TREE SALE NEW THIS YEAR – TREE CLIMBI...
Tagged: tree fair, athensclarke county, community tree council
Munchers bugging area oaks
By Lee Shearer – lee.shearer@onlineathens.com Published Wednesday, May 04, 2011 Lots of very hungry caterpillars are munching on Athens oak trees, and University of Georgia researchers want to know why. The dark gray and brown caterpillar is not some new invasive species from across the glo...
Tagged: blackdotted brown moth, cissusa spadix, oak caterpillars
Urban Lumber Available to Public
Reclaimed Urban Lumber is now more convenient than before. You can find New Urban Forestry up-cycled lumber for sale seven days a week in Athens, GA. No need for appointments, just stop into Southern Surplus on Atlanta Hwy. to find the best local hardwood lumber and slabs for sale. There’s...
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