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IU has almost 13,000 trees on campus, including 40 to 50 invasive bradford pears. This is the second year of a three-year plan to remove them. Up to 20 bradford trees need to be cut down by next year.

U.S. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) introduced a bill to more than double the size of Indiana’s only wilderness area and designate it — along with the land around it — a national recreation area.

More than a million and a half acres have burned this year across 13 western states, but Indiana forests may be suffering the consequences of less frequent burns.

A conservation group plans to use a $1 million donation to help reforestation work and add property to a 700-acre woodland it protects in central Indiana.

Mangrove forests are beautiful all on their own, but they also provide flood protection. The roots of the trees hold in sediment, which prevents erosion, and erosion makes floods a lot worse.