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Article: Seaside treasure found along river: The Nature Conservancy wants to preserve a rare type of tree and its habitat along the Blue River.
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- Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
- Article date:
- May 13, 2007
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Byline: Michael Overall
May 13--Nobody can explain why the Seaside Alder grows along the banks of the Blue River in southern Oklahoma.
Anything named Seaside would seem out of place so far inland, but that's only half the mystery.
"It's a population of tree found only in two places on the continent," said Michael Fuhr, the state director of the Nature Conservancy. "And the other place is in Delaware."
Not Delaware County. The state of Delaware, 1,500 miles from the Blue River.
It's possible that Delaware Indians brought saplings with them in the late 1700s, perhaps because the rare tree was thought to have medicinal uses. But ...