Green Horizons

Volume 5, Number 1
Winter 2000

Growing up with trees

Woodland owners have a unique opportunity to instill the values of growing trees in their children and grandchildren. Doc and Jeannette Howard, Tree Farmers from Virginia, have planted a tree on their Tree Farm for each of their 16 grandchildren. Each tree has a plaque with the child's name. Similar tree plantings have been made by several Missouri Tree Farm owners. One second generation owner who helped his father plant a pin oak tree in 1949 now uses the stump of the tree as an anvil base in his farm shop. The tree was destroyed by fire in 1993. Another pin oak was planted in that spot by the second and third generations in 1995.


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