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Fortingall Yew Is The Oldest Known Tree In The United Kingdom — And It’s At Risk Because Of Overtourism
Mogens EngelundThe Fortingall Yew tree in Perthshire, U.K., could be the oldest living organism in Europe. Crowds of unruly ...
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300-year-old Polish beech voted Tree of the Year
SardiniaRegionForestryCorps The Tasso di Matari in Sardinia, Italy, is one of the island's oldest yew trees ... The full results can be seen on Europe's Tree of the Year website.
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The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug
The Pacific yew was long considered a trash, or weed, tree that “contaminated” lumber companies' harvests of Douglas fir in the Northwest, often done by clear-cutting old forests. The ...