Another Tree Resource
Being Developed in Kansas

   Kansas Governor Bill Graves was the featured speaker at the Governor's Millenniium Grove ceremonies held on the campus of Washburn University, Monday, May 15th.
   Washburn University President Dr. Jerry B. Farley welcomed the Governor to the campus and spoke about the University's goal in replacing six hundred trees that were destroyed by a tornado in 1966.
   Fred Deneke, the United States Coordinator of Urban Forestry also spoke to the crowd, on behalf of USDA Secretary Dan Glickman, whoe idea is to establish a Millennium Grove in each state of the Union.
   Secretary Glickman introduced his idea at the National Urban Forest Conference that was recently held in Seattle, Washington. He encouraged that the trees should "be selected from the American Forests organization's Famous and Historic Trees collection."
  One hundred historic tree saplings grown from seeds of "historically significant trees associated with historical figures" were planted in the southwestern corner of the Washburn campus.
   Of the trees that were planted: a white oak and a red maple grown from seeds of trees growing next to the boyhood home of Charles Lindbergh, a redbud tree whose ancestral parent tree marked the Trail of Tears, a flowering dogwood from a Harpers Ferry tree, and a white ash from the seeds of a tree growing next to the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
   The one hundred trees in the Kansas Millennium Grove were planted by the Western Resources' Green Team, Kansas Forest Service personnel, and by Washburn University staff members.
   The Green Team has volunteered their time in nuturing and