| Parks department employees have discovered 17 destroyed trees in recent weeks, including pines, sugar maples and hackberries, and two young tulip trees, which were chopped down and left to rot. |
| The agreement foresees a study of 20 varieties of local trees such as brown olive tree, neem, alder buckthorn, European olive, hackberries, walnuts, etc. |
| In addition to the oaks, the city lost wax myrtles, hackberries, weeping willows and magnolias. |
| Turkeys and chickens wander the two-acre plot, gobbling hackberries and bird cherries that have fallen from trees planted in their pen, and leaving manure to nourish the plants. |
| The small berries, hackberries, are eaten by a number of birds and mammals. Most seeds are dispersed by animals, but some seeds are also dispersed by water. |
| But the latest attack — four tulip trees, a bunch of sugar maples, a red oak, a kwanzan cherry, a bitternut hickory, and hackberries — seemed random. |
