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By LISA G. CURRIE
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
We all have landmarks in our minds.
In Rappahannock, landmarks often include trees — the tall pine beside the store, the willow dipping low beside the culvert at the turn in the road, the ancient maple with its mahogany shades of autumn.
Living here in Rappahannock County, with trees as neighbors, as shade from summer sun, as a break from winter’s gusts, as our property’s wardrobe, we often take them for granted overlooking their beauty, their size or their lifetimes.
Now, the time has arrived to give them a place of distinction.
In April, using Earth Day ’90 as a cornerstone, local forestry consultant and arborist as well as past county forester, Lyttleton Wood proposed a tree registry for Rappahannock County.
“This is something I’ve wanted to do for years,” he said.
Using the national and state registries as a model, the county tree registry became a form of documentation which marks and certifies, often protecting the largest, usually the oldest, trees from destruction, damage or neglect. The Rappahannock Tree Registry identifies “notable trees around the
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