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Article: State Grant Helps Group Root Out Nightmarish 'Tree of Heaven'
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- The Washington Post
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- October 15, 2009
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Sometimes, protecting the environment means taking down trees.
With help from a state biologist, the Rockville chapter of the
Izaak Walton League of America has spent two years rooting out
invasive plants at its 53-acre headquarters in Germantown.
The chapter contacted the Maryland Department of Natural
Resources' Landowner Incentive Program, a competitive grant system
for private landowners funded by the U.S. Plant and Wildlife
Service, to help rid its property of invasive plants.
The incentive program aims to protect habitats in the state that
are home to the 455 plants and 152 animals that are rare,
threatened, endangered or otherwise need conservation, such as bog
turtles, Delmarva fox ...