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The Giant Sycamore and a Life Among Trees
A Linn-Mar High School educator recalls watching the state’s largest sycamore at Geode State Park felled for a new performing arts center on the campus. He notes years of tending a red maple on campus, reflects on forestry figures, and ends with a meditation on education and trees.
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Linn-Mar
Geode State Park
Tree
John Lawrence Hanson
Marion
Linn-Mar High School
Marion Tree Board