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2007

May 1: Carbon credit fraud heating up faster than the planet

May 2: Coon dog trees herself

May 3: Road trip this weekend? Visit the American Maple Museum in Croghan, New York

May 4: Study show tree distribution in rain forests affected by drought

May 7: Put a tree in your tank?

May 8: Trees an important part of regional carbon plans

May 9: Activist group looking to extend tree ordinance in Chico, California (not everyone thinks this is a swell idea)

May 10: For arts and crafts today, kids, we'll make clothes out of tree bark! Everyone go find a mutuba tree

May 11: Faith tree of Buddha not doing well

May 14: Second thoughts about palm trees

May 15: 9/11 trees begin their journey to Manhattan memorial park

May 16: " Did you know you can save the earth for the price of two cups of joe?" and other amazing pronouncements from the world's biggest polluter, the PRC

May 17: Mystery tree kills one, leaves village in uproar and readers scratching their heads

May 18: With a great spring weekend on tap, we celebrate the beauty of trees in the spring

May 21: Tree lost in storm finding new life

May 22: Trees vandalized with electrical boxes (really)

May 23: Carbon credits don't grow on trees

May 24: Minnesota fifth graders appreciate trees

May 25: Maybe money does grow on trees

May 29: A Memorial Day Reminder - trees planted to honor fallen Marines

May 30: Brazilian rubber trees are bouncing back

May 31: Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring

June 1: Death of a stately oak

June 4: Humans learned to walk in trees

June 5: New insights into ancient tree

June 6: Lack of trees along Icelandic roads contribute to tourists' excessive speed

June 7: Cedar tree fails to win UN protection

June 8: Take that, Blessed Virgin! Chicago suburb sees deceased mayor's visage in bark of city tree

June 11: Determination: Logger frees himself from downed tree by cutting off his own leg

June 12: A tree falls in Brookfield

June 13: Tree rings tell take of 60-year Arizona drought

June 14: Keeping pesky birds away from fruit trees

June 15: Swedish tree czars push for greener future

June 18: Tree pollen causing clouds of misery

June 19: Tree in a jar: researchers grow 6" tall GE trees

June 20: NZ looks at native trees' contribution to carbon emissions

June 21: Landmark Oklahoma cottonwood tree falls to storm

June 22: National Arbor Day Federation offers new guidebook on trees

June 25: Big trees in Ohio

June 26: Memorial dogwood planted in ceremony for slain Virginia Tech student

June 27: What a relief! Buried space aliens turn out to be tree trunks instead

June 28: Wanted: fat, old, gnarled trees

June 29: Life-giving trees felled by thoughtless humans

July 2: Hail to the Canadian hemlock -- one tough tree

July 3: Eucalyptus tree next genome to be sequenced for biofuel, carbon sequestration and industrial use

July 5: Tree climbing for fun

July 6: Tree huggers continue attack on GE trees

July 9: Say it ain't so, Al! Some cautionary words on the headlong rush into global warming?

July 10: Man disguised as tree robs bank branch

July 11: Little tree could have big impact on biofuels

July 12: Some beer, an ax, a couple of fools

July 16: "Meditate on this!" Tough times as denizens of higher consciousness strong-arm local farmer in Vedic City

July 17: Flatulent English teen sets fire to Christmas tree

July 18: Joining the search for Wales' oldest trees

July 19: Tree Climbers International

July 20: Locating Michigan's biggest trees

July 23: Things are even worse in Africa: Mabira "sex tree" faces extinction

July 24: Listen to the trees ... use of sound waves in judging quality of wood

July 25: Hey, whatever waters 'em ... Trees moved after divine intervention

July 26: Carbon offsets through the USFS? Isn't that going too far?

July 27: American chestnut trees spreading once again

July 30: Story behind the oldest tree

July 31: National Arbor Day Foundation book on tree identification

Aug 1: Presence of wolves allows Yellowstone aspen recovery

Aug 2: Congolese pygmies use GPS to save trees

Aug 6: 8 million year old trees found in Hungarian mine

Aug 7: Georgian Bay cedars predate the Vikings

Aug 8: Condensed tannin in silver birch leaves may lessen sheep flatulence

Aug 9: Free trees for joining National Arbor Day Foundation in August

Aug 10: USGS Release on Sierra Nevada tree die-off

Aug 13: Global warming could reduce rainforest canopy by 50%, researchers say

Aug 14: So how hot was it? NASA 's climate blunder

Aug 15: Papal trees being chopped down to make room for Pope

Aug 16: Australian rancher trapped for a week in a tree by angry crocs (the animals, not the shoes)

Aug 17: Angel seen in tree

Aug 20: Hundreds place warm butts on cold glacier to protest climate change

Aug 21: China: a country without any big trees

Aug 22: Sua trees being hunted down in Vietnam to satisfy Chinese import desires

Aug 23: Namibia's trees of national importance

Aug 24: One approach to forest maintenance: trees preserved because of wishes of the founder of the temple

Aug 27: Preserving an LA oak tree rooted in the Olympics

Aug 28: Tree group clones Teddy Roosevelt's beech

Aug 29: Tech from trees: the best wooden gadgets

Aug 30: The human dimension of urban forestry

Aug 31: Indian officials call for native trees along subcontinent highways

Sep 4: Not for the faint of heart ... Thai police catch banana tree rapist

Sep 5: Elderly couple claims tree damage to wall endangers their health

Sep 6: Why bears rub trees

Sep 7: In India, hundreds flock to "miracle tree"

Sep 10: Man of faith -- monk threatened for protesting the chopping of a sacred tree

Sep 11: Trees to be cut down to build a statue to ... uh ... trees

Sep 12: Tree-mendous! Disease leaves its mark inside horse chestnut tree

Sep 13: British mourners hold funeral service for tree

Sep 14: China stops tree planting to save farmland

Sep 17: Vatican buys into "green" culture

Sep 18: Height has advantage when gleaning last apple

Sep 19: Alaska firm heads up project to recover underwater trees in Panama Canal

Sep 20: Intercropping: seeing the forest and the trees

Sep 21: Just in time for the cold weather: new chemical tree and shrub protection!

Sep 24: (Yawn) ... another miracle tree ...

Sep 25: Singapore's "magic monkey" tree

Sep 26: Here's a "feel-good" idea for you jet-setters: plant one tree for every two days of flying...

Sep 27: Another Chinese import ... the Japanese persimmon tree is a fiery standout (and no lead-based paint on this one)

Sep 28: California sets fires to recreate prairie

Oct 1: Diamond pine -- Sogwang-Ri Forest is king of South Korean pine forests

Oct 2: Science nurtures nature in Lampung reserve

Oct 3: Fall foliage

Oct 4: A Kenyan teacher's computers-for-trees policy

Oct 5: Anne Frank's tree wins reprieve

Oct 9: Jamaican MP wants to make tree cutting trespass a criminal offense

Oct 10: Indonesia plans to plant 79 million trees in one day

Oct 11: Honoring a tree that saved a life

Oct 12: New campaign to stop dogs from chewing trees

Oct 15: Losing his heart to a tree

Oct 16: Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest threatened as ancient trees die off

Oct 17: Ashes to trees -- eco-cremation

Oct 18: Vietnamese successfully replicate nearly extinct paleobotanical tree

Oct 19: 200-million year old Wollemi pines get new siblings

Oct 22: Acorns ... and where they're from, according to a DJ

Oct 23: Greenpeace activists flee angry crowd without their trunks

Oct 24: The cow-eating trees of India

Oct 25: Meet Hercules, the world's oldest tree

Oct 26: And back in merry olde England, Christmas tree prices are on the rise ...

Oct 29: A new use for old shade trees -- trunk painting

Oct 30: Feeling good about being foolish: saving the planet one artificial Christmas tree at a time

Oct 31: Thailand to register rosewood trees to thwart smuggling

Nov 1: Autumn’s red leaves help trees survive

Nov 2: Retreating glaciers reveal ancient Canadian tree stumps

Nov 5: Tree hugging ... literally

Nov 6: They do some funny things in Canada … like barefoot tree climbing

Nov 7: Fish really do live in trees

Nov 8: Value of Loonie killing Canadian Christmas tree operation

Nov 9: Community forester is a tree-mendous guy

Nov 14: Who'da thought it? A sleazy book about trees

Nov 15: A South African safari in search of some remarkable trees

Nov 16: Autumn beauty at last!

Nov 19: We do tree lightings right in the good 'ol USA

Nov 20: Using sonic technology to peer inside ailing trees

Nov 21: Tree farmers take hatchet to fake Christmas trees

Nov 23: English bid to save old holly trees

Nov 26: Decayed gum trees give council a "hollow" victory

Nov 27: Reaching for the sky: a California project to clone redwoods

Nov 28: Trees give bizarre clues to climate change, scientists say

Nov 29: Mexico pledges to protect sacred butterfly trees

Nov 30: Kermit would tell you: It's not easy being green ... when buying a Christmas tree

Dec 3: Shade trees and mechanics

Dec 4: Yes, Charlie Brown, that little tree was a real good idea

Dec 5: A divorce? That'll be 25 trees, please

Dec 6: Keeping the green in your perfect Christmas tree

Dec 7: Christmas trees keep ambulance running

Dec 10: Mistletoe is a parasite -- as anyone trapped under it can tell you

Dec 11: Musical to tell story of "Christmas tree schooner" lost in a storm on Lake Michigan

Dec 12: Climate change driving Aussies to environmentally friendly Christmas gifts

Dec 13: Oklahoma state forester protects "Survivor Tree" during ice storm

Dec 14: Treasure hunt for Christmas and New Year’s trees soon to be underway in Moscow

Dec 17: "Cancer" threatens African acacia trees

Dec 18: From Texas, a spicy tale of sex and trees

Dec 19: Replanted Christmas trees are worth nurturing

Dec 20: Where are Iceland's Christmas trees?

Dec 21: Save the earth -- be a tree

Dec 24: Merry Christmas, everyone!

Dec 26: The dwindling urban forest - a graphic

Dec 27: Freezing tree thieves in Israel

Dec 28: Welsh gardeners keen to bite into world's rarest apple

Dec 31: Timeline of New England forest cover

Jan 2: Trees as signposts of the past

Jan 3: A tree in Delhi is worth a forest in Kashmir

Jan 4: In Florida, frozen iguanas fall from trees

Jan 7: Tattling on neighbors, the Internet way

Jan 8: Trees ... virtually free

Jan 9: Christmas tree prankster wanted in Okaloosa County

Jan 10: Nevada's Timber Belt as John Muir saw it

Jan 11: Kunming “tree doctor” to maintain Beijing Olympic venue

Jan 14: Working in an olive tree, to the rhythm of tradition

Jan 15: Teak tree poisoning in Thailand

Jan 16: New Zealand zealots attack genetically-engineered trees

Jan 17: Seder to celebrate "New Year of the Trees"

Jan 18: Illegal loggers decimating Kenyan forests

Jan 21: Nature's balance gone bad

Jan 22: C eremony held to seek deity permission to fell Thai trees for funeral urn

Jan 23: Eucalyptus trees threaten water level

Jan 24: Fear of the supernatural spares old trees in Indonesia

Jan 25: Owner seeks fake Chrstmas trees for landscaping project

Jan 28: Greece to replant trees at Olympic birthplace

Jan 29: 2,000 year-old tree chopped for firewood

Jan 30: Of trees and bees in Ethiopia

Jan 31: Evil spirits to be banished at Apple Tree Wassail event

Feb 1: Celeb dish! Britney Spears locked up after being found talking to trees!

Feb 4: A guide to the rain forest

Feb 5: Talking to trees

Feb 6: Sausages don’t come from trees – good-to-know agricultural info from the UK

Feb 7: The 10-billion tree initiative

Feb 8: Some say the 10-billion tree initiative isn't the best idea

Feb 11: Clearing the pine tree's name

Feb 12: Indonesia's Krui people protect environment their own way

Feb 13: Vietnamese honor Ho Chi Minh's memory with tree plantings

Feb 14: A Valentine's Day tree

Feb 15: South Africa conducting national park tree census from the sky

Feb 19: Setting urban tree canopy goals

Feb 20: Trees vs solar access

Feb 21: California Oak Mortality Task Force targets sudden oak death

Feb 22: Northeastern states develop climate strategy

Feb 25: Fighting to keep oaks alive

Feb 26: Chad's ancient trees get the chop

Feb 27: Cold earlier? Leaves falling faster? It's climate change!

Feb 28: Why junipers can live on less water

Feb 29: Fires threaten thousand year-old trees in Argentina

Mar 3: Locals in Guangdong Province behead, skin rare yew trees

Mar 4: In praise of family trees

Mar 5: Researchers conclude arboreal snakes more likely to fall from trees in cold weather

Mar 6: Secrets of cooperation between trees

Mar 7: Flying trees ...

Mar 10: Knitting sweaters for pear trees

Mar 12: Arborist finds happiness up a tree

Mar 13: Long days in the sugaring house and ideal weather are key to maple syrup

Mar 14: Trees ready in springtime to put stored energy to use

Mar 17: "Diesel" trees thrive in flood conditions

Mar 18: Koreans say Arbor Day moved up due to global warming

Mar 19: The answer for Bulgaria? More trees!

Mar 20: Turning genetically-engineered trees into toxic avengers

Mar 21: T he hunt is on for ancient trees

Mar 24: Rare American chestnut survives epidemic, thrives in Lake Erie wetland preserve

Mar 25: In the battle of the biggest trees, a reprieve ...

Mar 26: Zoo volunteers giraffes to help trim town's treetops

Mar 27: Champion American chestnut survivor will live on

Mar 28: Plant trees at factories, Kasmir industrialists urged

Mar 31: Accepting that trees are important

Apr 1: Cypriots incensed over tree burning in sentencing-of-Judas rite

Apr 2: Japan's post-war cedar trees bring allergy misery to millions

Apr 3: Bleeding canker disease threatens UK's supply of "conkers" -- they're buckeyes to us

Apr 4: Nature Conservancy Plant-a-Billion Tree campaign

Apr 7: Old maps used in UK to preserve historic trees

Apr 8: Indian scientists to clone sacred Bodhi tree

Apr 9: Mars has trees

Apr 10: Sikeston MO orchard comes back after producing a single peach last year

Apr 14: Pollen season is upon us

Apr 15: Yaks mark change of seasons under rhododendron trees

Apr 16: When palm trees attack

Apr 17: World's oldest tree -- 9,500 years -- found in Sweden

Apr 18: Seeing the woode for the trees in the carbon offset market

Apr 21: Can snakes climb trees?

Apr 22: Cherry blossoms - "the loveliest of trees"

Apr 23: "Treeless squirrel" shills for tree planting

Apr 24: Connecticut arboretum features native trees

Apr 25: 'Tree Musketeers' plans to plant 3 million trees

Apr 28: Today's bad tree idea: artificial palm trees in your backyard

Apr 29: African farmers turn to trees to make up for dwindling crops

Apr 30: Latest "Grand Theft Auto" video game has virtual trees from Lexington SC

May 1: My new favorite tree surgeon

May 2: NZ study says genetically-modified trees pose no threat

May 5: Champion trees disappear all around us

May 6: Tree vs food debate remains center stage in Australia

May 7: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... tree?

May 8: Ancient tea tree found in China

May 9: African medicinal tree faces extinction

May 12: Longfellow would have loved this place: Cook Forest in Pennsylvania remains a swath of virgin timber

May 13: World's oldest tree has seen — and marked — a lot of climate change

May 14: Elephant tree odd but intriguing

May 15: Trees likely doomed after moose strips bark

May 16: Prince Charles talks trees (and next week, an arborist will discuss royal succession)

May 19: Two trees, two hearts ... Michigan couple seeks to revive custom of planting marriage trees

May 20: Nigeria's cocoa trees are aging

May 21: Terrified pandas coaxed from trees in wake of China quake

May 22: That's right, blame the guy: male trees trigger hay fever

May 23: Poisonous trees hamper firefighters in Everglades fire

May 27: California eucalyptus trees placed on National Register

May 28: Genetically-modified trees hotly debated at UN biodiversity conference

May 29: Irish tree fund offers growth opportunities

May 30: Brazil to plant a bilion rain forest trees; New isolated tribe found in Amazon

June 2: Campaign to focus on rubber tree disease

June 3: 98% of Australian logging coupes are not out of their trees

June 4: Indonesian couples told to plant a tree before marrying

June 5: Ugandan man plants mega-forest

June 6: Manitoba to plant 5 million trees

June 9: How do we say this delicately? Tree sweat is really bug urine

June 10: Today, we're looking at a lake shore tragedy ... and governmental immunity

June 11: Africa's trees being hacked down at alarming rate

June 12: Wacky tree protests from someplace else

June 13: Tree grown from ancient seed found in Jewish fortress

June 16: Our thoughs exactly about Father's Day

June 17: Toward a sustained Amazon rainforest movement

June 18: Trees become headstones at Pocono eco-cemetery

June 19: A mighty beech has fallen

June 20: Britain adopts new inspection standards for trees

June 23: Donated trees used to build traditional tribal longhouse

June 24: Explore the history of the palm tree!

June 25: Making the right cut while caring for trees

June 26: Felled trees become work of art for WV subdivision

June 27: Bloom of the common smoke tree

June 30: Local bonsai community losing tree source

July 1: Flooded trees store carbon

July 2: Men in trees: Ohio climbing championship tests skills

July 3: Patriotic Christmas tree ornaments for the 4th?