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Charnwood Homestead's olive and orange trees

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 10 Jun 2016
A recent display of ACT Heritage Registered Trees at the ACT Heritage Library in Woden included a poster featuring osage orange trees and three olive trees (Olea europaea) on the site of the former Charnwood Homestead in Fraser. When registered in August last year, the largest olive tree was 13 metres in height with a 15-metre width and a trunk circumference of 4.35 metres ... I visited these olive trees three weeks ago....

Plan to widen Dindigul-Sathy road

Edit The Hindu 10 Jun 2016
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is likely to finalise the feasibility study shortly to widen National Highways 83 (earlier known as NH 209) from Dindigul to Sathyamangalam and from Sathyamangalam to Karnataka border ... Pravin of Pollachi Papyrus says that the road has a large number of trees forming a green canopy and these should not be brought down while widening the road....

Start Date Planned for Goliath Prescribed Burn – June 11, 2016 (NPS - National Park Service)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
NPS - National Park Service) News Release Date. ... SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. June 9, 2016 - Dates have now been set for the Goliath Prescribed Burn in Redwood Canyon, located in Kings Canyon National Park ... We've seen from previous prescribed burns that areas where fire has been returned, are not only safer, but show lower tree mortality and are more resilient to drought.'....

Start Date Planned for Goliath Prescribed Burn – June 11, 2016 (Hopewell Culture National Historical Park)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park) News Release Date. ... SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. June 9, 2016 - Dates have now been set for the Goliath Prescribed Burn in Redwood Canyon, located in Kings Canyon National Park ... We've seen from previous prescribed burns that areas where fire has been returned, are not only safer, but show lower tree mortality and are more resilient to drought.'....

Recurrence of thunderstorms wreaks havoc on city's greenery

Edit The Times of India 10 Jun 2016
Several huge and old Neem, Chilbil and other trees have either got uprooted or tilted completely. Countless tree branches have also broken ... More than 200 big trees have got uprooted all across the city in these storms. The worst affected is the Rawatpur-Company Bagh crossing where as many as four Euclyptus trees had come down on the ground. These trees were so huge that every time a tree fell, would completely block the road....

Tropical Fruits Provide Lifeline Amid Venezuela Food Shortages

Edit Voa News 10 Jun 2016
Facing Soviet-style food lines for increasingly scarce products at supermarkets, more and more people are turning to the South American nation's lush mango, coconut and papaya trees. While children have always scampered up trees or tossed stones to knock down the juicy yellow mangoes, workers are now joining them during lunch breaks, and parents are making long poles to scoop up the high treats....

Tree Teams help homeowners learn about their landscapes (Colorado State University)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
Each year the volunteers are offered advanced training; training has included plant disease diagnostics, insect identification and tree care. They're called Tree Teams, and their mission is to help get information out on tree issues. Some volunteers focus their training on the troubles that trees have - like emerald ash borer - and volunteer in their community to help people understand how to care for these leafy giants....

Bombay High Court tells BMC to submit policy on new tree plantation in city

Edit DNA India 10 Jun 2016
A division bench of justices Abhay Oka and AA Sayed, while issuing notice to other agencies namely MMRDA, MSRTC and the state forest department, asked them to file affidavits as to what steps it is taking to increase tree cover in the city ... The court has also asked the corporation to inform whether it is using scientific ways to conduct a tree census....

Second Tree Planting to be Held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Saturday, June 11 (553KB) (AEON Co Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
Second Tree Planting to be Held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Saturday, June 11. Planting a total of 7,000 trees together with 650 volunteers. Aeon Environmental Foundation (Takuya Okada, Chairman of the Foundation and Honorary Chairman and Advisor of Aeon Co., Ltd.; hereinafter, "The Foundation") will conduct the second Phnom Penh Tree Planting on Saturday, June 11 in the Kingdom of Cambodia (hereinafter, "Cambodia")....

Departments prepare for green drive

Edit The Times of India 10 Jun 2016
District collector Amit Saini has asked the government department to take responsibility of maintaining the trees which will be planted under the state-wide drive on July 1. He reviewed the preparations for the drive to plant six lakh trees across the district ... "The target of planting 6 lakh trees will be achieved using this schedule," he said....

Glacier Artist-in-Residence Presents Program (NPS - National Park Service)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
NPS - National Park Service) Date. ... Glacier National Park Media Release ... WEST GLACIER, MT -The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center at Glacier National Park is hosting a brown bag luncheon presentation by watercolor Artist-in-Resident Suze Woolf on Friday, June 17from 12 p.m ... During her residency, she plans to explore how landscapes are affected by fire, in particular fire-scarred trees....

Glacier Artist-in-Residence Presents Program (Hopewell Culture National Historical Park)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park) Date. ... Glacier National Park Media Release ... WEST GLACIER, MT -The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center at Glacier National Park is hosting a brown bag luncheon presentation by watercolor Artist-in-Resident Suze Woolf on Friday, June 17from 12 p.m ... During her residency, she plans to explore how landscapes are affected by fire, in particular fire-scarred trees....

Thousands in Bangladesh face a daily struggle for survival in the aftermath of Cyclone Roanu (IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
None of the tin or thatch-roofed houses in the area are left standing,' said Ziaul Himel, a member of the National Disaster Response Team of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, who is currently stationed in the district. Lifa's home in Chachra was destroyed by an uprooted tree ... The storm had ripped up a tree that not only destroyed his house but also killed his wife....
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