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It will not take long to realize or remember that of all America's riches, the inherited and acquired, the natural and manmade, trees are among our most cherished.
It would be a poorer nation indeed without them, if a nation at all. As living creatures they delight the eye and inspire belief as you walk among them. As wood, logged and hewn, they serve civilization in myriad ways.