NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — It’s time to find the biggest and the oldest trees in Nashville. A Music City tradition, the “Big Old Tree” contest, is back. The competition started in 1987 and it’s taken ...
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The century-old search for Maryland’s biggest trees
A hundred years ago, Maryland’s first state forester, Fred Besley, issued a challenge to residents: Go out in the woods and find the biggest tree you can. Then collect its measurements and send them ...
View state and national champion trees and learn special care techniques at Maymont, Richmond’s historic park. Then tour the Dragon Run on the Middle Peninsula to discuss bald cypress trees and old ...
Hoping this interest in big trees might inspire Marylanders to develop a deeper relationship with their forests, Besley organized the Tree Contest in 1925. Fifteen years later, he worked with the ...
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