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| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A specimen of Acer negundo judged in 1979 to be the largest known example in Wisconsin. The tree is standing on a lawn at Green Gables, part of the ... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A specimen of Carya ovata judged in 1979 to be the largest example of the species in Wisconsin. The tree stands on the Blackhawk Country Club golf c... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A specimen of Ginkgo biloba judged to be the largest example of the species in Wisconsin in 1979. It was located at Covenant Harbor Camp at Lake Gen... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A specimen of Pinus nigra, judged to be the second largest of its type in Wisconsin, standing beside a house at 302 N. Wisconsin Street. Three young... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A specimen of Pseudotsuga menziesii standing tall against a backdrop of shorter deciduous trees on the Green Gables Estate. It was judged to be the ... |
| Date: | 02 1982 |
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| Description: | A large American elm, Ulmus americana, standing amid the snow covered stubble in a cornfield. Taliesin, the home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | An elm growing on the property of C.H. Weller, on West Highland Street, towers over the adjacent houses. In 1952, the circumference of the tree's trunk was... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A giant specimen of Ulmus americana, captioned "Old Council Tree," standing along the Fox river. Houses are along the far shoreline; a wooden fence ... |
| Date: | 04 1965 |
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| Description: | A spreading specimen of Ulmus rubra dwarfs a small house in the background. This tree, with a trunk circumference of 16 feet 5 inches, was the subje... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin professor of plant pathology and forestry Eugene B. Smalley (1926-2002), right, is watching as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | A large, spreading oak tree shading stone stairs in the courtyard of Frank Lloyd Wright's home, Taliesin. A large bronze bell is hanging from the lowest li... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A dusting of snow highlights the structure of a spreading oak in the courtyard of Frank Lloyd Wright's home, Taliesin, seen in the background. A large bron... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A historical marker mounted on a metal post tells the story of Col. Richard Dunbar discovering, in 1866, the healing properties of water from a nearby spri... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards a woman standing with her arms outstretched and with her back against the trunk of a tall red oak near Lake Mendota. A car is sittin... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A large black walnut tree standing in the yard of the Spring Tavern at 3706 Nakoma Road. Also known as the Spring Inn or Spring Hotel, the structure was bu... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | A large bur oak with a notably crooked trunk standing next to the Congregational Church on Milwaukee Avenue. There are picnic tables under the tree and pla... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A tall, stately Ohio buckeye tree standing just to the left of the porticoed entry of the Greek Revival Wilcox house at 707 N. Broadway Street. Five sturdy... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | An enormous, nearly symmetrical spreading bur oak tree towering over a picnic table and a row of conifers. Samuel Faulkner Phoenix, the founder of Delavan,... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A tall bur oak at the corner of Ransom and West Thorne Streets dwarfs adjacent houses and their garages. The tree is bare and there is snow on the ground. ... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A tall oak with two main trunks frames the Civil War monument on the lawn of the Pepin County Courthouse. Removed in 1977, the tree was the site of the lyn... |
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