Endangered Trees Able to Outsmart Hungry Squirrels
Photo via the Edmonton Journal Old dogs may have a hard time learning new tricks — but it doesn’t seem to be a problem for a group of endangered trees from Canada, some of which are around 1,500 years old. In 2009, so many of Alberta’s mountainous five-needle pines were killed by beetles and fungi that they became listed as endangered, in desperate need of repopulation to preserve the species, but seed-hungry squirrels threatened to dim their chances. Local scientists were pleased to discov… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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