USC nature preserve aids well-being and wildlife, while reducing global warming
USC’s hidden gem is a 10-acre nature preserve on the edge of the Shandon neighborhood.
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Tag: trees
Nature’s Christmas lights: Congaree National Park firefly event returns
The window to enter a lottery to get a ticket for the wildly popular annual event starts April 3.
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Why aren’t the leaves changing color? Why don’t I have to wear a coat?
It could be a combination of temperature and drought, experts say.
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Forest Acres’ sprirt ‘alive and well’ in Helene’s wake
Forest Acres is 5 acres in size, and Columbia, 137. Yet the cities saw around the same amount of trees come down.
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Treasured Trees aims to promote awareness, values of trees
The nomination process for the Treasured Trees program is open through Nov. 1.
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15-year-old trees cut down for new concrete median in Five Points
Cutting down the trees was necessary, and they were too big to replant, state transportation officials said.
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Downtown Columbia residents wake to fallen trees, power outages
Downtown trees fell in an early Wednesday morning storm, blocking roads and causing power outages.
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Bye bye, Bradford! Replacing the problematic pear
See the several substitutions for the stinky species
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Columbia Canopy Project seeks shade, history in marginalized communities
The project has planted 175 trees so far.
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Functionally extinct trees grow at Columbia arboretum
American chestnut trees once numbered in the billions. W. Gordon Belser Arboretum is home to a new generation of the tree.
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Speaking for the trees: Why one man is mapping USC’s thousands
The University of South Carolina has nearly 10,000 trees on its property. One man is mapping them all.
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SC gets $1.6 million in federal money for forest, watershed management
Forest restoration and management efforts in the South Carolina Piedmont watershed will expand following a $1.6 million award from a national partnership.
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