The Politics of Trees
This Tree Planter
Clip | 5m 56s
Overland Park's City Forester Bailey Patterson discusses how the city addresses invasive beetles.
We follow along Bailey Patterson, the City Forester of Overland Park, Kansas, to discuss the challenges that the city is having with maintaining thousands of new saplings that were planted after they had to remove all of their mature ash trees due to an invasive beetle.
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The Politics of Trees is a local public television program presented by Kansas City PBS
The Politics of Trees
This Tree Planter
Clip | 5m 56s
We follow along Bailey Patterson, the City Forester of Overland Park, Kansas, to discuss the challenges that the city is having with maintaining thousands of new saplings that were planted after they had to remove all of their mature ash trees due to an invasive beetle.
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