Pear Tree Program

It’s all about the trees at the University of Kentucky’s Department of Forestry and Natural Resources department beginning a Bradford pear bounty program.It’s an effort to help landowners replace their Bradford pear trees, which have become an invasive species in Kentucky.While the trees have become widely popular and are known for their beautiful blooms in the springtime, they do come with many downsides. In groups, those blooms can smell, and they generally have a short lifespan, getting easily damaged in high winds and ice storms.

Source: MG News

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