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Book Review

Fifty Common Trees of Missouri is a new free publication from MDC. It replaces the venerable “Green Book,” officially titled as Missouri Trees.

This updated version adds 25 more trees to the book. Each with descriptions of key identification features, growth rate, potential height, an interesting fact and a line drawing for the leaf and some of the fruit. Also added is a dichotomous key and a glossary of leaf, fruit, and bark types, and miscellaneous terms.

Pick up a copy at an workshop or the Conservation Office in Joplin.

APPRECIATION SONG

Spades take up leaves
No better than spoons,
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.

I make a great noise
Of rustling all day
Like rabbit and deer
Running away.

But the mountains I raise
Elude my embrace
Flowing over my arms
And into my face.

I may load and unload
Again and again
Till I fill the whole shed,
And what have I then?

Next to nothing for weight;
And since they grew duller
From contact with earth,
Next to nothing for color.

Next to nothing for use.
But a crop is a crop,
And who´s to say where
The harvest shall stop?

                                        -- Robert Frost

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December 1
Missouri Community Forestry Council State Meeting, Conservation Employees Credit Union Meeting Room, Jefferson City, MO, 10:00 AM Contact: Justine Gartner (Justine.Gartner@mdc.mo.gov), 573-522-4115 Extn. 3116

December 5
Tree Pruning Workshop, Newton Hall Conference Room, Crowder College, Neosho, MO 6:30 PM Contact Jon Skinner (Jon.Skinner@mdc.mo.gov) 417-629-3423

December 9
ISA Certified Arborist Exam, Springfield Conservation Center, 4600 South Chrisman, Springfield, MO Contact Alan Moore, 417-864-1135, Registration Deadline November 21, Register at www.isa-arbor.com/certification/exams.aspx

December 12
Tree Pruning Workshop, Room B, Thiebaud Auditorium, Lamar, MO 7:00 PM Contact Jon Skinner (Jon.Skinner@mdc.mo.gov) 417-629-3423

December 15
ISA Certified Arborist Exam, Historic Railroad Depot, 430 North Main, El Dorado, KS Contact Eric Berg (eberg@oznet.ksu.edu, 785-532-3308, Registration Deadline November 30, Register at www.isa-arbor.com/certification/exams.aspx

January 8 - 10
Western Nursery & Landscape Association - Western 2006 Annual Meeting and Trade Show, Overland Park Convention Center, Overland Park, KS Contact WNLA (info@wnla.org), 816-233-1481, Registration information at www.wnla.org.

February 1 - 3
Missouri Natural Resources Conference, Tan-Tar-A Resort, Osage Beach, MO Contact Andy Austin (andy.austin@mdc.mo.gov), 573-468-3335 Extn 239, Registration information at www.mnrc.org.

February 21 - 24
Missouri Park & Recreation Association's 2006 Annual Conference, Sheraton Westport Chalet Hotel, Maryland Heights, MO Contact MPRA (info@mopark.org), 573-636-3828, Registration information at www.mopark.org.

February 20 - 23
Midwestern Chapter of the International Society Arboriculture Annual Conference, Bismarck, ND Contact Jeff Heintz (jheintz@state.nd.us), 701-222-6561


50 Common Trees of Missouri cover
Reflection


“A nations’ growth from sea to sea
Stirs in the heart of a tree. ”

- Henry Bunner




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Urban Forester
Forestry Division
MO Dept. of Conservation
705 Illinois Ave., Ste. 6b
Joplin, MO 64801-5065
417-629-3423
Jon.Skinner@mdc.mo.gov

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