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ty, scored 469 total points." These trees and many other champion winners can be viewed at the Big Tree Program website at http://www.fw.vt.edu/4h/bigtree/.

Current programs related to the Virginia Big Tree Program include Virginia Tech's Master Gardener and municipal Tree Stewards around the state. Kirwan hopes that volunteers from these programs can re-measure all 500 trees in the current database over the next five years. These volunteers -- along with volunteers from the 4-H Big Tree Program -- will ensure that big trees will be recognized and protected now and into the future. "The one thing we still lack," noted Kirwan, "is a Virginia Historic Tree Program, which would delineate another aspect of special trees."

"Surprisingly enough, two-thirds of the big trees occur in urban areas," Kirwan said. One group that addresses the needs of urban forestry is Trees Virginia, whose mission is to teach citizens and those involved in tree use how to take care of city trees. For more information on that group, contact 1-800-866-VATREES, or http://www.treesvirginia.org.


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Contact: Jeff Kirwan
jkirwan@vt.edu
540-231-7265
Virginia Tech
18-Dec-2002


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